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Nucleic Acids Research, 1991, Vol. 19, No. 14 3805-3810
© 1991

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mapping of the DNA linking tyrosine residue of the PRD1 terminal protein

Shih-Yi Shiue, Jui-Cheng Hsieh and Junetsu Ito*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85724, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received May 28, 1991. Revised June 19, 1991. Accepted June 19, 1991.

DNA replication of PRD1, a lipid-containing phage, is initiated by a protein-priming mechanism. The terminal protein encoded by gene 8 acts as a protein primer in DNA synthesis by forming an initiation complex with the 5'-terminal nucleotide, dGMP. The linkage between the terminal protein and the 5' terminal nucleotide is a tyrosylphosphodiester bond. The PRD1 terminal protein contains 13 tyrosine residues in a total of 259 amino acids. By site-directed mutagenesis of cloned PRD1 gene 8, we replaced 12 of the 13 tyrosine residues in the terminal protein with phenylalanlne and the other tyrosine residue with asparaglne. Functional analysis of these mutant terminal proteins suggested that tyrosine-190 is the linking amlno acid that forms a covalent bond with dGMP. Cyanogen bromide cleavage studies also implicated tyrosine-190 as the DNA-linking amlno acid residue of the PRD1 terminal protein. Our results further show that tyrosine residues at both the amino-terminal and the carboxyl-termlnal regions are important for the initiation complex forming activity. Predicted secondary structures for the regions around the DNA linking amlno acid residues were compared in three terminal proteins (ø29, adenovirus-2, and PRD1). While the linking amino acids serine-232 (ß29) and serine-577 (adenovirus-2) are found in ß-turns in hydrophilic regions, the linking tyrosine-190 of the PRD1 terminal protein is found in a ß-sheet in a hydrophobic region.


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