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The budding yeast Mei5-Sae3 complex interacts with Rad51 and preferentially binds a DNA fork structure.


ABSTRACT: Meiotic homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves formation of nucleoprotein filaments of Rad51 and Dmc1 that mediate DNA strand exchange between homologous chromosomes. The Mei5-Sae3 protein complex functions as a recombination mediator to promote nucleation of the Dmc1 recombinase onto replication protein A-coated single-stranded DNA. Here, we have expressed and purified the Mei5 protein, Sae3 protein and the Mei5-Sae3 complex for biochemical studies. We show the Mei5-Sae3 complex preferentially binds a fork-like DNA substrate to 3' overhanging DNA, single-stranded DNA or double-stranded DNA. We demonstrate that Mei5 confers DNA binding activity to the Mei5-Sae3 complex. We determined Mei5-Sae3 interacts with the Rad51 recombinase through the N-terminal domain of Mei5. Unlike Rad52, Mei5-Sae3 lacks recombination mediator activity for Rad51. Importantly, we find that the Mei5-Sae3 complex does not harbor single-strand DNA annealing activity. These properties of the Mei5-Sae3 complex distinguishes it from the Rad52 protein, which serves as the mediator of Rad51 and is involved in the single-strand DNA annealing pathway of homologous recombination.

SUBMITTER: Say AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3119066 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The budding yeast Mei5-Sae3 complex interacts with Rad51 and preferentially binds a DNA fork structure.

Say Amanda F AF   Ledford LeAnna L LL   Sharma Deepti D   Singh Akhilesh K AK   Leung Wing-Kit WK   Sehorn Hilarie A HA   Tsubouchi Hideo H   Sung Patrick P   Sehorn Michael G MG  

DNA repair 20110504 6


Meiotic homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves formation of nucleoprotein filaments of Rad51 and Dmc1 that mediate DNA strand exchange between homologous chromosomes. The Mei5-Sae3 protein complex functions as a recombination mediator to promote nucleation of the Dmc1 recombinase onto replication protein A-coated single-stranded DNA. Here, we have expressed and purified the Mei5 protein, Sae3 protein and the Mei5-Sae3 complex for biochemical studies. We show the Mei5-Sae3  ...[more]

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