Project description:The division of labour between DNA polymerase underlies the accuracy and efficiency of replication. However, the roles of replicative polymerases have not been directly established in human cells. We developed polymerase usage sequence (Pu-seq) in HCT116 cells and mapped Polε and Polα usage genome wide. The polymerase usage profiles show Polε synthesises the leading strand and Polα contributes mainly to lagging strand synthesis. Combining the Polε and Polα profiles, we accurately predict the genome-wide pattern of fork directionality, plus zones of replication initiation and termination. We confirm that transcriptional activity contributes toshapes the patterns of initiation and termination and, by separately analysing the effect of transcription ofon both both co-directional and converging forks, demonstrate that coupled DNA synthesis of leading and lagging strands in both co-directional and convergent forks is compromised by transcription. Polymerase uncoupling is particularly evident in the vicinity of large genes, including the two most unstable common fragile sites, FRA3B and FRA3D, thus linking transcription-induced polymerase uncoupling to chromosomal instability.
Project description:We have established a novel sequencing approach to characterise usage of replicative DNA polymerases in S. pombe. This approach allows us to determine the roles of DNA polymerase delta and epsilon in lagging strand and leading strand DNA synthesis, respectively in genome-wide scale. Utilising the dataset of usage of these polymerases, we also successfully identified DNA replication initiation sites at high resolution. Furthermore, our informatics analysis establishes genome-wide datasets of fork direction rates, replication timing and the probability of replication termination. We mapped ribonucleotide-incorporation by the mutated DNA polymerase delta and epsilon at single-nucleotide resolution and subsequent informatics analysis was performed to generate datasets listed here.
Project description:We have established a novel sequencing approach to characterise usage of replicative DNA polymerases in S. pombe. This approach allows us to determine the roles of DNA polymerase delta and epsilon in lagging strand and leading strand DNA synthesis, respectively in genome-wide scale. Utilising the dataset of usage of these polymerases, we also successfully identified DNA replication initiation sites at high resolution. Furthermore, our informatics analysis establishes genome-wide datasets of fork direction rates, replication timing and the probability of replication termination.
Project description:Three eukaryotic DNA polymerases are essential for genome replication. Polymerase (Pol) ?-primase initiates each synthesis event and is rapidly replaced by processive DNA polymerases: Pol? replicates the leading strand, whereas Pol? performs lagging-strand synthesis. However, it is not known whether this division of labor is maintained across the whole genome or how uniform it is within single replicons. Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we have developed a polymerase usage sequencing (Pu-seq) strategy to map polymerase usage genome wide. Pu-seq provides direct replication-origin location and efficiency data and indirect estimates of replication timing. We confirm that the division of labor is broadly maintained across an entire genome. However, our data suggest a subtle variability in the usage of the two polymerases within individual replicons. We propose that this results from occasional leading-strand initiation by Pol? followed by exchange for Pol?.
Project description:We devised and improved on our hydrolytic end sequencing (HydEn-seq) that mapping ribonucleotide incorporation in genome and used this method to track DNA replicative polymerase usage. We uncovered striking exceptions to canonical polymerase division of labor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Project description:We report the application of high through-put tag sequencing to measure the location and strand of DNA embedded ribonucleotides in the yeast genome. Mutations in the catalytic subunits of the polymerases (pol1-L868M, pol2-M644G and pol3-L612M) lead to the increased incorporation of ribonucleotides during DNA replication, providing an in vivo label with which to track the contribution of each polymerase to the fully replicated genome. Yeast strains used in this study are deleted for rnh201, encoding the catalytic subunit of the RNase H2 gene so that embedded ribonucleotides are not rapidly removed by ribonucleotide excision repair following DNA replication. Analysis of this data demonstrates that polymerase alpha contributes to the fully replicated genome. Sequencing of DNA embedded ribonucleotides in S. cerevisiae strains to map the contribution of replicative polymerases to the fully replicated genome.
Project description:During influenza A virus (IAV) infections, viral proteins are targeted by cellular E3 ligases for modification with ubiquitin. Here, we decipher and functionally explore the ubiquitin landscape of the IAV polymerase during infection of human alveolar epithelial cells by applying mass spectrometry analysis of immuno-purified K-ε-GG- (di-glycyl)-remnant-bearing peptides. We identified 59 modified lysines across all three subunits of the viral polymerase of which 17 distinctively affected mRNA transcription, vRNA replication and the generation of recombinant viruses via non-proteolytic mechanisms. Moreover, our results demonstrate that the ubiquitinated residue K578 in the PB1 thumb domain is crucial for the dynamic structural transitions of the viral polymerase that are required for vRNA replication. Mutations K578A and K578R impeded the steps of cRNA stabilization and vRNA transcription, respectively, and affected NP binding as well as polymerase dimerization. Collectively, our results indicate that ubiquitin-mediated disruption of the charge-dependent interaction between PB1-K578 and PB2-E72 is required to coordinate polymerase dimerization and facilitate vRNA replication, which demonstrates that IAV exploit the cellular ubiquitin system to modulate the activity of the viral polymerase for the regulation of viral replication.