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Genome-wide function of MCM-BP in Trypanosoma brucei DNA replication and transcription.


ABSTRACT: In Trypanosoma brucei, genes are arranged in Polycistronic Transcription Units (PTUs), which are demarcated by transcription start and stop sites. Transcription start sites are also binding sites of Origin Recognition Complex 1 (ORC1). This spatial coincidence implies that transcription and replication in trypanosomes must occur in a highly ordered and cooperative manner. Interestingly, a previously published genetic screen identified the T. brucei MCM-BP, which interacts with subunits of MCM helicase, as a protein whose downregulation results in the loss of transcriptional silencing at subtelomeric loci. Here, I show that TbMCM-BP is required for DNA replication and transcription. TbMCM-BP depletion causes a significant reduction of replicating cells in S phase and genome-wide impairments of replication origin activation. Moreover, levels of sense and antisense transcripts increase at boundaries of PTUs in the absence of TbMCM-BP. TbMCM-BP is also important for transcriptional repression of the specialized subtelomeric PTUs, the Bloodstream-form Expression-Sites (BESs), which house the major antigenic determinant (the Variant Surface Glycoprotein, VSG gene) as well as TbORC1 binding sites. Overall, this study reveals that TbMCM-BP, a replication initiation protein, also guides the initiation, termination and directionality of transcription.

SUBMITTER: Kim HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6344857 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide function of MCM-BP in Trypanosoma brucei DNA replication and transcription.

Kim Hee-Sook HS  

Nucleic acids research 20190101 2


In Trypanosoma brucei, genes are arranged in Polycistronic Transcription Units (PTUs), which are demarcated by transcription start and stop sites. Transcription start sites are also binding sites of Origin Recognition Complex 1 (ORC1). This spatial coincidence implies that transcription and replication in trypanosomes must occur in a highly ordered and cooperative manner. Interestingly, a previously published genetic screen identified the T. brucei MCM-BP, which interacts with subunits of MCM he  ...[more]

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