BAKKAIOVA, Jana, María Victoria MARINI PALOMEQUE, Smaranda WILLCOX, Jozef NOSEK, Jack D. GRIFFITH, Lumír KREJČÍ and Lubomir TOMASKA. Yeast mitochondrial HMG proteins: DNA-binding properties of the most evolutionarily divergent component of mitochondrial nucleoids. Bioscience Reports. London: Portland Press LTD, 2016, vol. 36, No 1, p. "nestránkováno", 13 pp. ISSN 0144-8463. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BSR20150275.
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Original name Yeast mitochondrial HMG proteins: DNA-binding properties of the most evolutionarily divergent component of mitochondrial nucleoids
Authors BAKKAIOVA, Jana (703 Slovakia), María Victoria MARINI PALOMEQUE (858 Uruguay, belonging to the institution), Smaranda WILLCOX (840 United States of America), Jozef NOSEK (703 Slovakia), Jack D. GRIFFITH (840 United States of America), Lumír KREJČÍ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Lubomir TOMASKA (703 Slovakia).
Edition Bioscience Reports, London, Portland Press LTD, 2016, 0144-8463.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study Genetics and molecular biology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.906
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/16:00087782
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BSR20150275
UT WoS 000371296900008
Keywords in English DNA binding protein; DNA compaction; HMG-box containing protein; mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); Holliday junction; mitochondrial nucleoid
Tags EL OK, podil
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Yeast mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is compacted into nucleoprotein structures called mitochondrial nucleoids (mt-nucleoids). The principal mediators of nucleoid formation are mitochondrial HMG-box containing (mtHMG) proteins. Although these proteins are some of the fastest evolving components of mtnucleoids, it is not known whether the divergence of mtHMG proteins on the level of their amino acid sequences is accompanied by diversification of their biochemical properties. In this study we performed a comparative biochemical analysis of yeast mtHMG proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ScAbf2p), Yarrowia lipolytica (YlMhb1p) and Candida parapsilosis (CpGcf1p). We found that all three proteins exhibit relatively weak binding to intact double-stranded (ds) DNA. In fact, ScAbf2p and YlMhb1p bind quantitatively to this substrate only at very high protein to DNA ratios and CpGcf1p shows only negligible binding to dsDNA. In contrast, the proteins exhibit much higher preference for recombination intermediates such as Holliday junctions and replication forks. Therefore, we hypothesize that the roles of the yeast mtHMG proteins in maintenance and compaction of mtDNA in vivo are in large part mediated by their binding to recombination/replication intermediates. We also speculate that the distinct biochemical properties of CpGcf1p may represent one of the prerequisites for frequent evolutionary tinkering with the form of the mitochondrial genome in the CTG-clade of hemiascomycetous yeast species.
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GAP207/12/2323, research and development projectName: Endonuleazová a translokázová aktivita v restričních-modifikáčních komplexéch typu I
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
GA13-26629S, research and development projectName: SUMO a stability genomu
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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