Rad54 protein stimulates the postsynaptic phase of Rad51 protein-mediated DNA strand exchange

Jachen Armon Solinger; Wolf Dietrich Heyer

doi:10.1073/pnas.121009898

Rad54 protein stimulates the postsynaptic phase of Rad51 protein-mediated DNA strand exchange

Jachen Armon Solinger, Wolf Dietrich Heyer

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Abstract

Rad54 and Rad51 are important proteins for the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks by homologous recombination in eukaryotes. As previously shown, Rad51 protein forms nucleoprotein filaments on single-stranded DNA, and Rad54 protein directly interacts with such filaments to enhance synapsis, the homologous pairing with a double-stranded DNA partner. Here we demonstrate that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad54 protein has an additional role in the postsynaptic phase of DNA strand exchange by stimulating heteroduplex DNA extension of established joint molecules in Rad51/Rpa-mediated DNA strand exchange. This function depended on the ATPase activity of Rad54 protein and on specific protein:protein interactions between the yeast Rad54 and Rad51 proteins.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	8447-8453
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	98
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.121009898
State	Published - Jul 17 2001

Keywords

Double-strand break repair
Heteroduplex DNA extension
Recombination
Yeast

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Rad54 protein stimulates the postsynaptic phase of Rad51 protein-mediated DNA strand exchange

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