Structure of the active form of human origin recognition complex and its ATPase motor module

  1. Ante Tocilj
  2. Kin Fan On
  3. Zuanning Yuan
  4. Jingchuan Sun
  5. Elad Elkayam
  6. Huilin Li
  7. Bruce Stillman  Is a corresponding author
  8. Leemor Joshua-Tor  Is a corresponding author
  1. Cold Spring Harbor, United States
  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, United States
  3. Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States
  4. Stony Brook University, United States
6 figures, 2 videos and 3 tables

Figures

Figure 1 with 2 supplements
Structure of the motor module of HsORC.

(a) Ribbon diagram of the motor module resembling a cashew nut, with ORC1 in green, ORC4 in cyan and ORC5 in purple. The three ATP molecules nestled between the domains are shown in stick …

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Figure 1—figure supplement 1
HsORC constructs used in this study.

Bar diagram illustrating the constructs and domain structure of HsORC subunits. The colored regions were used in this study. For ORC5, the construct used for the motor module extends till residue …

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Figure 1—figure supplement 2
ATP nucleotides at the motor module subunit interfaces.

SigmaA-weighted omit maps of three of the six ATP nucleotides at the three different interfaces from left to right: at the ORC1-4 interface, at the ORC4-5 interface, at ORC5 ATP-binding site.

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Similarity of the HsORC motor module with DNA polymerase clamp loader complexes.

Top row: HsORC1/4/5 (this work); yeast RFC-B, -C, -D, -E subunits with nucleotide from the RFC clamp loader bound to the PCNA clamp (Bowman et al., 2004) (1SXJ); gp44 subunits with nucleotide from …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20818.007
Figure 3 with 2 supplements
Motor module ATPase.

(a) ATP-binding site at the ORC1/4 interface. (b) ATP-binding site at the ORC4/5 interface. (c) ATP-binding site of ORC5. ORC1 is shown in green, ORC4 in cyan and ORC5 in purple. ATP and key …

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Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Interactions with the adenine base at the ATP-binding sites.

(a) ATP-binding site at the ORC1/4 interface. (b) ATP-binding site at the ORC4/5 interface. (c) ATP-binding site of ORC5. ORC1 is shown in green, ORC4 in cyan and ORC5 in purple. ATP and key …

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Figure 3—figure supplement 2
HsORC ATPase activities.

Representative samples from ATPase assays. (a) Thin layer chromatography (TLC) of ATPase activity assays of the ORC motor module and mutants as indicated. (b) Coomassie-stained SDS-PAGE gel showing …

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Figure 4 with 8 supplements
Structure of HsORC.

(a) Cryo-EM density of HsORC1-5, back view. Note that the top and bottom are flipped compared with the maps shown in the supplementary Figures. (b) Ribbon diagram of HsORC modeled into cryo-EM …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Electron-density maps for the HsORC2/3 complex.

Electron-density map directly following molecular replacement using DmORC2/3 as a search model contoured at 1σ. This illustrates that even at this modest resolution the crystallographic data has …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 2
Negative stain EM of the truncated human ORC1-5.

(a) A typical raw micrograph of the HsORC particles stained in uranyl acetate. (b) 2D class averages. Numbers at the lower left corner in each panel refers to the number of particles used to compute …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 3
Negative stain 3D EM map of the truncated HsORC.

(a) The 3D map in six different views. Note that in these views, the top and bottom are flipped (upside down) compared with Figure 4. (b) Gold standard Fourier Shell correlation of the reconstructed …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 4
Generation of templates for automatic particle picking.

(a) Left panel, a typical raw image for initial manual particle picking. Right panel, around 100 particles marked by green circles were picked manually. (b) Left panel, a second raw image used for …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 5
3D classification procedure used to derive the final 3D-density map of the HsORC.

532,782 raw particles were selected from drift corrected electron micrographs. 2D classification and sorting rejected ~80% of particles that did not yield good averages or appeared to be broken …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 6
Eulerian angle distribution of the cryo-EM particles used in 3D refinement.

Euler angle distribution of 10,357 particles used in refinement of the 20 Å 3D map. The particle orientation covers nearly all angular space.

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Figure 4—figure supplement 7
Cryo-EM of the truncated human ORC1-5 complex.

(A) A typical motion-corrected raw image of HsORC particles frozen in vitreous ice recorded on a K2 direct detector. (B) Selected 20 2D class averages. (C) 3D cryo-EM map of HsORC, front, back, side …

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Figure 4—figure supplement 8
Structure of HsORC.

Ribbon diagram of HsORC modeled into cryo-EM density in an orthogonal view to that shown in Figure 3b. The ORC motor module is colored as in Figure 1. ORC2 is shown in wheat and ORC3 is shown in …

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HsORC is in an active conformation.

(a) Different positions of HsORC1 and DmORC1 in the context of the bigger particle. HsORC1 is shown in green, DmORC1 is shown in red and the rest of the HsORC complex is shown in grey. (b) The …

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Figure 6 with 2 supplements
Modeled interaction of HsORC with CDC6 and DNA.

(a) Model of HsORC-CDC6 with CDC6 in pink. HsORC1-5 subunits are shown in a transparent rendering. (b) Cartoon depiction of HsORC-CDC6 showing the organization of the particle with the smaller WHDs …

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Figure 6—figure supplement 1
Model of interaction of HsORC with CDC6.

Side view of the model of HsORC-CDC6 with CDC6 in pink. CDC6 completes the ring without any additional movements.

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Figure 6—figure supplement 2
Model of interaction of HsORC with DNA.

Top view of the model of HsORC-CDC6 with DNA.

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Videos

Video 1
Ribbon diagram of HsORC modeled into cryo-EM density.

ORC1 is shown in green, ORC4 in cyan, ORC5 in purple, ORC2 in wheat and ORC3 in salmon. ATP is shown in stick.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20818.020
Video 2
A morphing of the structure of DmORC into HsORC.

HsORC1 moves to form an active ATP interface with HsORC4. HsORC2 moves out and up from the more ‘collapsed’ placement in DmORC.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20818.022

Tables

Table 1

Data collection and refinement statistics for HsORC motor module*.

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Data collection
Wavelength (Å)0.9793
Resolution range (Å)19.88–3.39 (3.52–3.39)
Space groupP21
Unit cell (Å,°)120.89 81.14 151.95 90 97.25 90
Total reflections148448 (14543)
Unique reflections39700 (3849 )
Multiplicity3.7 (3.8)
Completeness (%)0.97 (0.96)
Mean I/s(I)8.75 (1.19)
Wilson B-factor (Å2)104.85
R-merge0.1385 (1.406)
R-measure0.1619 (1.641)
CC1/20.997 (0.524)
CC*0.999 (0.829)
Refinement
Resolution range (Å)19.88–3.39 (3.52–3.39)
Reflections used in refinement39700 (3849)
Reflections used for R-free1963 (198)
R-work0.2421 (0.3745)
R-free0.2811 (0.4015)
CC(work)0.959 (0.662)
CC(free)0.923 (0.591)
Number of non-hydrogen atoms15870
Macromolecules15678
Ligands192
Protein residues1947
RMSD bonds (Å)0.004
RMSD angles (°)0.72
Ramachandran favored (%)95
Ramachandran allowed (%)4.6
Ramachandran outliers (%)0
Rotamer outliers (%)0.57
Clashscore3.59
Average B-factor (Å2)127.05
Macromolecules127.23
Ligands112.92
Number of TLS groups31
  1. *Values in parentheses are for the highest resolution shell.

Table 2

Data collection and refinement statistics for HsORC2/3*.

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Data collection
Wavelength (Å)0.9793
Resolution range (Å)20.07–6.00 (6.21–6.00)
Space groupP21
Unit cell (Å,°)87.26 114.96 316.46 90 90.72 90
Total reflections52200 (8302)
Unique reflections15430 (2286)
Multiplicity3.4 (3.6)
Completeness (%)95.0 (99.1)
Mean I/s(I)5.7 (1.0)
Wilson B-factor (Å2)316
R-merge0.183 (>1)
R-measure0.24 (>1)
CC1/20.991 (0.422)
Refinement
Resolution range (Å)20.07–6.00 (6.45–6.00)
Reflections used in refinement15179 (1498)
Reflections used for R-free753 (1498)
R-work0.3180 (0.3804)
R-free0.3685 (0.4019)
Number of non-hydrogen atoms24148
Protein residues2944
RMSD bonds (Å)0.013
RMSD angles (°)1.30
Ramachandran favored (%)87
Ramachandran allowed (%)12
Ramachandran outliers (%)0.8
  1. *Values in parentheses are for the highest resolution shell.

Table 3

Cryo-EM data collection and refinement statistics of HsORC1-5.

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Data Collection

EM equipment

FEI Titan Krios

Voltage (kV)

300

Detector

Gatan K2

Pixel size (Å)

1.01

Electron dose (e-/Å2)

50

Defocus range (µm)

−1.5 ~ −3.5

Reconstruction

Software

RELION 1.4

Number of final particles

Resolution (Å)

10,357

20

Map sharpening B-factor (Å2)

−479

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