DNA replication defects in a mutant deficient in the thioredoxin homolog YbbN.

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Le, Hai-Tuong | Gautier, Valérie | Kthiri, Fatoum | Kohiyama, Masamichi | Katayama, Tsutomu | Richarme, Gilbert

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International audience. Escherichia coli contains two thioredoxins, Trx1 and Trx2, and a thioredoxin-like protein, YbbN, that displays both redox and chaperone properties. Since three out of the six proteins of the YbbN interactome (Butland et al., 2005) are components of DNA polymerase 3 holoenzyme (i.e. the β-clamp DnaN, the θ subunit HolE and the δ' subunit HolB), we investigated whether the ybbN mutant presents DNA replication defects. We found that this mutant incorporates (3)H-thymidine at higher rates than the parental strain and displays overinitiation, hypermutator and filamentation phenotypes with the occurrence of anucleated cells. Moreover, YbbN functions as a bona fide chaperone in the refolding of the urea-unfolded β-clamp. These results suggest that the DNA replication and cell division defects of the ybbN mutant might best be explained by chaperone functions of YbbN in the biogenesis of DNA polymerase 3 holoenzyme.

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