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spelling Li, Jie Liu, Jingfang Zhou, Ligang Pei, Huadong Zhou, Jian Xiang, Hua 0021-9193 1098-5530 American Society for Microbiology Molecular Biology Microbiology http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.01511-09 <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p> Primase, encoded by <jats:italic>dnaG</jats:italic> in bacteria, is a specialized DNA-dependent RNA polymerase that synthesizes RNA primers <jats:italic>de novo</jats:italic> for elongation by DNA polymerase. Genome sequence analysis has revealed two distantly related <jats:italic>dnaG</jats:italic> genes, <jats:italic>TtdnaG</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>TtdnaG</jats:italic> <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> , in the thermophilic bacterium <jats:italic>Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis</jats:italic> . Both TtDnaG (600 amino acids) and TtDnaG2 (358 amino acids) exhibit primase activities <jats:italic>in vitro</jats:italic> at a wide range of temperatures. Interestingly, the template recognition specificities of these two primases are quite distinctive. When trinucleotide-specific templates were tested, TtDnaG initiated RNA primer synthesis efficiently only on templates containing the trinucleotide 5′-CCC-3′, not on the other 63 possible trinucleotides. When the 5′-CCC-3′ sequence was flanked by additional cytosines or guanines, the initiation efficiency of TtDnaG increased remarkably. Significantly, TtDnaG could specifically and efficiently initiate RNA primer synthesis on a limited set of tetranucleotides composed entirely of cytosines and guanines, indicating that TtDnaG initiated RNA primer synthesis more preferably on GC-containing tetranucleotides. In contrast, it seemed that TtDnaG2 had no specific initiation nucleotides, as it could efficiently initiate RNA primer synthesis on all templates tested. The DNA binding affinity of TtDnaG2 was usually 10-fold higher than that of TtDnaG, which might correlate with its high activity but low template specificity. These distinct priming activities and specificities of TtDnaG and TtDnaG2 might shed new light on the diversity in the structure and function of the primases. </jats:p> Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from <i>Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis</i> Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities Journal of Bacteriology
spellingShingle Li, Jie, Liu, Jingfang, Zhou, Ligang, Pei, Huadong, Zhou, Jian, Xiang, Hua, Journal of Bacteriology, Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
title Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
title_full Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
title_fullStr Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
title_full_unstemmed Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
title_short Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
title_sort two distantly homologous dnag primases from <i>thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis</i> exhibit distinct initiation specificities and priming activities
title_unstemmed Two Distantly Homologous DnaG Primases from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Exhibit Distinct Initiation Specificities and Priming Activities
topic Molecular Biology, Microbiology
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.01511-09