Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 10 2114-2123
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Site-specific and temporally controlled initiation of DNA replication in a human cell-free system
Department of Biology, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, 1Genetique Moleculaire, Ecole Normale Superieure, F-75 230 Paris Cedex 05, France and 2Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
We have recently established a cell-free system from human cells that initiates semi-conservative DNA replication in nuclei isolated from cells which are synchronised in late G1 phase of the cell division cycle. We now investigate origin specificity of initiation using this system. New DNA replication foci are established upon incubation of late G1 phase nuclei in a cytosolic extract from proliferating human cells. The intranuclear sites of replication foci initiated in vitro coincide with the sites of earliest replicating DNA sequences, where DNA replication had been initiated in these nuclei in vivo upon entry into S phase of the previous cell cycle. In contrast, intranuclear sites that replicate later in S phase in vivo do not initiate in vitro. DNA replication initiates in this cell-free system site-specifically at the lamin B2 DNA replication origin, which is also activated in vivo upon release of mimosine-arrested late G1 phase cells into early S phase. In contrast, in the later replicating ribosomal DNA locus (rDNA) we neither detected replicating rDNA in the human in vitro initiation system nor upon entry of intact mimosine-arrested cells into S phase in vivo. As a control, replicating rDNA was detected in vivo after progression into mid S phase. These data indicate that early origin activity is faithfully recapitulated in the in vitro system and that late origins are not activated under these conditions, suggesting that early and late origins may be subject to different mechanisms of control.
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