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Biochemistry

Hybrid Ensemble and Single-molecule Assay to Image the Motion of Fully Reconstituted CMG

Published: July 26th, 2024

DOI:

10.3791/67076

1Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2Chromosome Replication Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, 3Department of Physics and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford

Abstract

Eukaryotes have one replicative helicase known as CMG, which centrally organizes and drives the replisome, and leads the way at the front of replication forks. Obtaining a deep mechanistic understanding of the dynamics of CMG is critical to elucidating how cells achieve the enormous task of efficiently and accurately replicating their entire genome once per cell cycle. Single-molecule techniques are uniquely suited to quantify the dynamics of CMG due to their unparalleled temporal and spatial resolution. Nevertheless, single-molecule studies of CMG motion have thus far relied on pre-formed CMG purified from cells as a complex, which precludes the study of the steps leading up to its activation. Here, we describe a hybrid ensemble and single-molecule assay that allowed imaging at the single-molecule level of the motion of fluorescently labeled CMG after fully reconstituting its assembly and activation from 36 different purified S. cerevisiae polypeptides. This assay relies on the double functionalization of the ends of a linear DNA substrate with two orthogonal attachment moieties, and can be adapted to study similarly complex DNA-processing mechanisms at the single-molecule level.

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