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Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 16 3022-3030
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Human 100-kDa homologous DNA-pairing protein is the splicing factor PSF and promotes DNA strand invasion

Alexandre T. Akhmedov* and Bernard S. Lopez1

Basel Institute for Immunology, Grenzacherstrasse 487, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland and 1Unité Mixte de Recherches Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique-CNRS 217, Commissariat ‘a l’Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Département de Radiobiologie et de Radiopathologie, 60–68 avenue du Général Leclerc, 92265 Fontenay aux Roses, France

Proteins promoting homologous pairing could be involved in various fundamental biological processes. Previously we detected two mammalian nuclear proteins of 100 and 75 kDa able to promote homologous DNA pairing. Here we report isolation and characterisation of the human (h) 100-kDa DNA-pairing protein, hPOMp100, from HeLa nuclei. The peptide sequences of hPOMp100 revealed identity to the human splicing factor PSF and a DNA-binding subunit of p100/p52 heterodimer of unknown function. Bacterially expressed PSF promotes DNA pairing identical to that of hPOMp100. hPOMp100/PSF binds not only RNA but also both single-stranded (ss) and double-stranded (ds) DNA and facilitates the renaturation of complementary ssDNAs. More important, the protein promotes the incorporation of a ss oligonucleotide into a homologous superhelical dsDNA, D-loop formation. A D-loop is the first heteroduplex DNA intermediate generated between recombining DNA molecules. Moreover, this reaction could be implicated in re-establishing stalled replication forks. Consistent with this hypothesis, DNA-pairing activity of hPOMp100/PSF is associated with cellular proliferation. Significantly, phosphorylation of hPOMp100/PSF by protein kinase C inhibits its binding to RNA but stimulates its binding to DNA and D-loop formation and may represent a regulatory mechanism to direct this multifunctional protein to DNA metabolic pathways.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +41 61 605 12 80; Fax: +41 61 605 13 64; Email: akhmedov@bii.ch


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