[PRIA_ECOLI] Involved in the restart of stalled replication forks. Recognizes and binds the arrested nascent DNA chain at stalled replication forks. It can open the DNA duplex, via its helicase activity, and promote assembly of the primosome and loading of the major replicative helicase DnaB onto DNA. Is also involved in initiation of normal DNA replication in various plasmids and phages. Binds to branched DNA structures that resemble D-loops or to the primosome assembly site (PAS). Binds to DNA in two distinct modes, either dependent on or independent of the 3' terminus recognition.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
PriA, a DEXH-type DNA helicase, binds specifically to the 3' end of DNA through its N-terminal domain, and is a candidate sensor protein that recognizes arrested DNA replication forks in bacteria. We crystallized an N-terminal fragment of PriA in the absence and the presence of oligonucleotides to elucidate the structural basis for the specific recognition of the 3' terminus of DNA.
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the N-terminal domain of PriA from Escherichia coli.,Sasaki K, Ose T, Tanaka T, Mizukoshi T, Ishigaki T, Maenaka K, Masai H, Kohda D Biochim Biophys Acta. 2006 Jan;1764(1):157-60. Epub 2005 Oct 3. PMID:16226927[11]
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↑Tanaka T, Taniyama C, Arai K, Masai H. ATPase/helicase motif mutants of Escherichia coli PriA protein essential for recombination-dependent DNA replication. Genes Cells. 2003 Mar;8(3):251-61. PMID:12622722
↑Mizukoshi T, Tanaka T, Arai K, Kohda D, Masai H. A critical role of the 3' terminus of nascent DNA chains in recognition of stalled replication forks. J Biol Chem. 2003 Oct 24;278(43):42234-9. Epub 2003 Aug 13. PMID:12917421 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.C300285200
↑Cadman CJ, McGlynn P. PriA helicase and SSB interact physically and functionally. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Dec 2;32(21):6378-87. Print 2004. PMID:15576682 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh980
↑Tanaka T, Mizukoshi T, Sasaki K, Kohda D, Masai H. Escherichia coli PriA protein, two modes of DNA binding and activation of ATP hydrolysis. J Biol Chem. 2007 Jul 6;282(27):19917-27. Epub 2007 May 4. PMID:17483094 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M701848200
↑Manhart CM, McHenry CS. The PriA replication restart protein blocks replicase access prior to helicase assembly and directs template specificity through its ATPase activity. J Biol Chem. 2013 Feb 8;288(6):3989-99. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.435966. Epub 2012, Dec 20. PMID:23264623 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M112.435966
↑Sasaki K, Ose T, Tanaka T, Mizukoshi T, Ishigaki T, Maenaka K, Masai H, Kohda D. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the N-terminal domain of PriA from Escherichia coli. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2006 Jan;1764(1):157-60. Epub 2005 Oct 3. PMID:16226927 doi:10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.09.007
