Ladenburger Eva-Maria, Keller Christian, Knippers Rolf
Department of Biology, Universität Konstanz, D-78464 Konstanz, Germany.
Mol Cell Biol. 2002 Feb;22(4):1036-48. doi: 10.1128/MCB.22.4.1036-1048.2002.
We investigated the binding regions of components of the origin recognition complex (ORC) in the human genome. For this purpose, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation assays with antibodies against human Orc1 and Orc2 proteins. We identified a binding region for human Orc proteins 1 and 2 in a <1-kbp segment between two divergently transcribed human genes. The region is characterized by CpG tracts and a central sequence rich in AT base pairs. Both, Orc1 and Orc2 proteins are found at the intergenic region in the G(1) phase, but S-phase chromatin contains only Orc2 protein, supporting the notion that Orc1p dissociates from its binding site in the S phase. Sequences corresponding to the intergenic region are highly abundant in a fraction of nascent DNA strands, strongly suggesting that this region not only harbors the binding sites for Orc1 protein and Orc2 protein but also serves as an origin of bidirectional DNA replication.
我们研究了人类基因组中起始识别复合物(ORC)各组分的结合区域。为此,我们用针对人类Orc1和Orc2蛋白的抗体进行了染色质免疫沉淀试验。我们在两个反向转录的人类基因之间的一个<1千碱基对的片段中确定了人类Orc蛋白1和2的一个结合区域。该区域的特征是富含CpG序列以及一个富含AT碱基对的中心序列。在G1期,Orc1和Orc2蛋白都存在于基因间区域,但S期染色质中仅含有Orc2蛋白,这支持了Orc1p在S期从其结合位点解离的观点。与该基因间区域相对应的序列在一部分新生DNA链中高度丰富,这强烈表明该区域不仅含有Orc1蛋白和Orc2蛋白的结合位点,还作为双向DNA复制的起点。