CTP and parS coordinate ParB partition complex dynamics and ParA-ATPase activation for ParABS-mediated DNA partitioning

  1. James A Taylor
  2. Yeonee Seol
  3. Jagat Budhathoki
  4. Keir C Neuman
  5. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States
  3. NIDDK/NIH, United States
  4. National Institutes of Health, United States

Abstract

ParABS partition systems, comprising the centromere-like DNA sequence parS, the parS-binding ParB-CTPase and the nucleoid-binding ParA-ATPase, ensure faithful segregation of bacterial chromosomes and low-copy-number plasmids. F-plasmid partition complexes containing ParBF and parSF move by generating and following a local concentration gradient of nucleoid-bound ParAF. However, the process through which ParBF activates ParAF-ATPase has not been defined. We studied CTP- and parSF-modulated ParAF-ParBF complex assembly, in which DNA-bound ParAF-ATP dimers are activated for ATP hydrolysis by interacting with two ParBF N-terminal domains. CTP or parSF enhances the ATPase rate without significantly accelerating ParAF-ParBF complex assembly. Together, parSF and CTP accelerate ParAF-ParBF assembly without further significant increase in ATPase rate. Magnetic-tweezers experiments showed that CTP promotes multiple ParBF loading onto parSF-containing DNA, generating condensed partition complex-like assemblies. We propose that ParBF in the partition complex adopts a conformation that enhances ParBF-ParBF and ParAF-ParBF interactions promoting efficient partitioning.

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  1. James A Taylor

    Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  2. Yeonee Seol

    Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  3. Jagat Budhathoki

    NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, United States
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  4. Keir C Neuman

    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  5. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi

    NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, United States
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NIDDK/NIH (Intramural Research Fund)

  • Kiyoshi Mizuuchi

NHLBI/NIH (Intramural Research Fund)

  • Keir C Neuman

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Thomas Surrey, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain

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  1. Received: December 10, 2020
  2. Preprint posted: January 25, 2021 (view preprint)
  3. Accepted: July 20, 2021
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: July 21, 2021 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: August 11, 2021 (version 2)

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  1. James A Taylor
  2. Yeonee Seol
  3. Jagat Budhathoki
  4. Keir C Neuman
  5. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
(2021)
CTP and parS coordinate ParB partition complex dynamics and ParA-ATPase activation for ParABS-mediated DNA partitioning
eLife 10:e65651.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65651

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