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Relaxation Complexes of Plasmids Colel and Cole2:Unique Site of The Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 71, No. 10, pp. 3854-3857, October 1974 Relaxation Complexes of Plasmids ColEl and ColE2: Unique Site of the Nick in the Open Circular DNA of the Relaxed Complexes (Escherichia coli/supercoiled DNA/endonuclease/restriction enzyme/DNA replication) MICHAEL A. LOVETT, DONALD G. GUINEY, AND DONALD R. HELINSKI Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. 92037 Communicated by Stanley L. Miller, June 26, 1974 ABSTRACT The product of the induced relaxation of volved in the production of a single-strand cleavage in the supercoiled DNA-protein relaxation complexes of colicino- initiation of replication and/or conjugal transfer of plasmid genic factors El (ColEl) and E2 (CoIE2) is an open circular DNA molecule with a strand-specific nick. Cleavage of the DNA. An involvement in such processes would most likely open circular DNA of each relaxed complex with the EcoRI require that the relaxation event take place at a unique site restriction endonuclease demonstrates that the single- in the DNA molecule. In this report, evidence will be pre- strand break is at a unique position. The site of the single- sented from studies using the EcoRI restriction endonuclease strand break in the relaxed ColEl complex is approximately the same distance from the EcoRI cleavage site as the that the strand-specific relaxation event takes place at a origin of ColEl DNA replication. unique site on both the ColEl and CoIE2 plasmid molecules. The location of this site, at least in the case of the ColEl Many of extrachromosomal circular DNA elements (plas- plasmid, is approximately the same distance from the single mids) of Escherichia coli, differing in molecular weight, num- EcoRI site as the origin of replication for this plasmid. ber of copies per cell, and in the properties they confer to their host, have been isolated as both supercoiled DNA- MATERIALS AND METIODS protein relaxation complexes and supercoiled DNA without Strains, Media, and Labeling Conditions. The E. coli K12 associated protein (1). Treatment of the plasmid DNA- strains JC411 thy-(ColEl) and JC411 thy-(ColE2) have protein relaxation complexes in vitro with agents capable of been described (6). M9 medium (7) contained 0.2% (w/v) altering protein structure induces the conversion of the super- glucose and 0.005% (w/v) of each of the required amino coiled DNA in the complex to the open circular (relaxed) acids. For [IH]thymine labeling, cultures contained 1 ug/ml DNA form. The relaxation complexes of the colicinogenic of nonradioactive thymine and 10-20 ,uCi/ml of [methyl-'H]- factors, ColEl (2) and ColE2 (3, 4), the sex factor F1 (5), thymine. For [(4C]thymine labeling, 10 pCi of ["4C]thymine and the R factor R6K (Kupersztoch, Lovett, and Helinski, containing 27 pg of thymine was added to each 15 ml of me- submitted for publication) have been studied in the greatest dium. The amount of plasmid DNA present as relaxation com- detail. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-induced relaxation of each of plex was maximized by the addition of cyclic adenosine mono- these complexes produces one strand-specific break. The phosphate (cAMP) to a final concentration of 2.5 mM (6). properties of the relaxation complexes suggest that they con- Under these conditions, about 80% of CoIEl DNA and 60% sist of supercoiled DNA and a latent strand-specific endo- of ColE2 DNA are isolated in the form of relaxation com- nuclease that is activated by treatment with certain protein- plex. denaturing agents. In each case the broken strand is the poly(U,G) binding or "heavy" strand. More recently, it Preparation of Complexed and Noncomplexed Plasmid DNA. has been shown that the supercoiled ColEl complex has Relaxation complexes of ColEl and ColE2 were prepared as three major protein components whose molecular weights are described by Clewell and Helinski (2), with the modification 60,000, 16,000, and 11,000 (Lovett and Helinski, manuscript that crude lysates were made by the addition of Triton X-100 in preparation). After the induction of relaxation with sodium to spheroplasts (6) followed by centrifugation at 46,000 X g dodecyl sulfate, the 60,000-molecular-weight protein alone for 25 min to pellet most of the chromosomal DNA. The remains in association with the broken strand even under a supernatant (cleared lysate) was centrifuged through 38-ml variety of conditions that normally dissociate protein from sucrose density gradients containing 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH DNA (Blair and Helinski, manuscript in preparation). The 8.0), 5 mM EDTA, 50 mM NaCl for 16 hr at 40 at 25,000 protein remains associated with the 5' end of the broken rpm in a Beckman SW 27 rotor. Plasmid-containing fractions strand (Guiney and Helinski, manuscript in preparation). were pooled and precipitated with ethanol. After resuspension It has been proposed that a covalent bond between the 5' with Tris-EDTA-NaCl buffer containing 0.5%7O sodium terminus of the DNA and the 60,000-dalton protein is formed dodecyl sulfate to induce relaxation, the DNA was centri- upon relaxation of the ColEl complex. The ColE2 relaxation fuged through 5-iml sucrose density gradients containing Tris- complex has been found to exhibit similar properties upon EDTA-NaCl buffer with 0.5 M NaCl for 140 min at 150 at treatment with sodium dodecyl sulfate. 50,000 rpm in a Beckman SW 50.1 rotor to separate 23S These novel properties of plasmid DNA protein complexes supercoiled plasmid DNA from 17S open circular DNA. have led to the suggestion that relaxation complexes are in- The open circular DNA was precipitated with ethanol and suspended in 0.1 M Tris HCl (pH 7.5), 50 mM NaCl, 5-10 Abbreviations: ColEl and ColE2, colicinogenic factors. mM MgCl2 for digestion with the EcoRI endonuclease. 3854 Downloaded by guest on October 2, 2021 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 71 (1974) Unique Site of the Nick in Plasmid DNA 3855 For preparation of supercoiled ColEl and ColE2 DNA, cells were grown in M9 glucose medium without the addition of cAMP. To minimize the amount of Co1E2 DNA present as relaxation complex, cleared lysates of JC411 (CoIE2) were heated at 600 for 20 min to inactivate the relaxation com- plex (4); Sarkosyl was added to a final concentration of 0.05% (w/v) and the lysate was centrifuged to equilibrium in a cesium chloride-ethidium bromide density gradient (8). Supercoiled ColE1 DNA was also prepared by the dye-buoy- ant density procedure. After centrifugation, the supercoiled DNAs were extracted four to six times with CsCl-saturated isopropanol (9) and then precipitated with ethanol. After resuspension with Tris-EDTA-NaCl buffer, the plasmid DNA was centrifuged through 5-ml 5-20% sucrose density gra- Fraction Nunber dients as described above, and the 23S supercoiled DNA was FIG. 1. Cleavage of ColEl and ColE2 DNA with the EcoRI then precipitated with ethanol and suspended in RI buffer. restriction endonuclease. ['H] Thymine-labeled DNA of the ColEl relaxed complex, prepared as described in Materials and Agarose Gel Electrophoresis of DNA. Electrophoresis of Methods, was analyzed on neutral 5-20% sucrose density gra- DNA was performed in agarose gels set in cylindrical Plexi- dients before and after digestion with the EcoRI endonuclease. glas tubes of 6-mm internal diameter (15-cm lengths). Agarose [14C]Thymine-labeled DNA of the ColEl relaxed complex was of the indicated concentration was added to electrophoresis added as a sedimentation marker. Centrifugation was carried out buffer [Tris-phosphate-dodecyl sulfate buffer (Loening) (11) in a Spinco SW 50.1 rotor at 50,000 rpm for 140 min at 15°. mM 30 mM 1 mM Ten-drop fractions were collected from the bottom of the gra- containing 36 Tris, NaH2PO4, EDTA, dients directly into vials containing Triton scintillation fluid. and 0.05% dodecyl sulfate (pH 7.7)], dissolved by auto- [3H]Thymine-labeled DNA of the ColE2 relaxed complex was claving for 15 min, and poured into rubber-capped gel tubes. analyzed similarly before EcoRI digestion and after EcoRI After the gels hardened, the rubber caps were removed, the digestion with ColEl supercoiled and open circular [32P]DNA top 5 mm of the gels were sliced off to provide a flat surface, (prepared by Dr. P. Williams) added as a sedimentation marker. and the bottoms of the gel tubes were covered with dialysis ColEl DNA (A) before and (B) after digestion with the EcoRI tubing. DNA samples were denatured with 0.1 volume of endonuclease. ColE2 DNA (C) before and (D) after digestion 1 M NaOH, as described by Hayward and Smith (11), before with the EcoRI endonuclease. electrophoresis for analysis of single-stranded DNA. To assay radioactively labeled DNA, the gels were sliced into 1-mm discs single-stranded fragments of less than unit size derived from and their radioactivity was determined in 10 ml of a toluene the broken strand. solution containing 4 g/liter of Omnifluor and 5% Protosol The product of EcoRI digestion of 23S supercoiled or 17S (New England Nuclear Corp.) after they were shaken on a open circular ColEl DNA derived from the induced relaxa- rotary shaker for at least 2 hr at 37°. tion of the ColEl complex sediments as a linear 15S molecule EcoRr Endonuclease Digestion. The buffer for EcoRI di- in neutral sucrose density gradients (Fig. 1A and B). There gestion contained 0.1 M Tris- HCO (pH 7.5), 50 mM NaCl, are no detectable fragments of less than unit size (4.2 X 106 and 5-10 mM MgCl2. EcoRI endonuclease was the generous molecular weight), indicating that EcoRI cleavage produces gift of Herbert Boyer.
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