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- Title
Thermococcus kodakarensis has two functional PCNA homologs but only one is required for viability.
- Authors
Pan, Miao; Santangelo, Thomas; Čuboňová, Ľubomíra; Li, Zhuo; Metangmo, Harlette; Ladner, Jane; Hurwitz, Jerard; Reeve, John; Kelman, Zvi
- Abstract
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) monomers assemble to form a ring-shaped clamp complex that encircles duplex DNA. PCNA binding to other proteins tethers them to the DNA providing contacts and interactions for many other enzymes essential for DNA metabolic processes. Most eukarya and euryarchaea have only one PCNA homolog but Thermococcus kodakarensis uniquely has two, designated PCNA1 and PCNA2, encoded by TK0535 and TK0582, respectively. Here, we establish that both PCNA1 and PCNA2 form homotrimers that stimulate DNA synthesis by archaeal DNA polymerases B and D and ATP hydrolysis by the replication factor C complex. In exponentially growing cells, PCNA1 is abundant and present at an ~100-fold higher concentration than PCNA2 monomers. Deletion of TK0582 (PCNA2) had no detectable effects on viability or growth whereas repeated attempts to construct a T. kodakarensis strain with TK0535 (PCNA1) deleted were unsuccessful. The implications of these observations for PCNA1 function and the origin of the two PCNA-encoding genes in T. kodakarensis are discussed.
- Subjects
THERMOCOCCUS kodakaraensis; BACTERIAL DNA metabolism; HOMOLOGY (Biology); BACTERIAL growth; DNA polymerases; PROTEIN binding; DNA-protein interactions
- Publication
Extremophiles, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 3, p453
- ISSN
1431-0651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00792-013-0526-8