Cloning and cell cycle-dependent expression of DNA replication gene dnaC from Caulobacter crescentus.
AUTOR(ES)
Ohta, N
RESUMO
Chromosome replication in the asymmetrically dividing bacteria Caulobacter crescentus is discontinuous with the new, motile swarmer cell undergoing an obligatory presynthetic gap period (G1 period) of 60 min before the initiation of DNA synthesis and stalk formation. To examine the regulation of the cell division cycle at the molecular level, we have cloned the DNA chain elongation gene dnaC from a genomic DNA library constructed in cosmid vector pLAFR1-7. To ensure that the cloned sequence corresponded to dnaC, we isolated the gene by genetic complementation of the temperature-sensitive allele dnaC303 on DNA fragment that contained a Tn5 insertion element tightly linked by transduction to dnaC. The size of the dnaC gene was estimated to be 1,500 bp or less based on the pattern of complementation by subcloned restriction and BAL 31 deletion fragments. Nuclease S1 assays were used to map the transcription start site and to determine the pattern of dnaC expression in the cell cycle. Large amounts of the dnaC transcript began to accumulate only in the late G1 period of the swarmer cell and then peaked early during chromosome replication. We confirmed that the gene is periodically transcribed by monitoring the rate of beta-galactosidase synthesis directed by a dnaC promoter-lacZ fusion in a synchronous cell culture. dnaC is the first C. crescentus cell cycle gene whose regulation has been reported, and the discontinuous pattern of its expression suggests that the DNA synthetic period in these dimorphic bacteria is regulated in part by the stage-specific expression of DNA replication genes.
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