Re-oxygenation of hypoxic simian virus 40 SV40-infected CV1 cells causes distinct changes of SV40 minichromosome-associated replication proteins Hans-Jo¨rg Riedinger, Maria van Betteraey
Trang 1Re-oxygenation of hypoxic simian virus 40 (SV40)-infected CV1 cells causes distinct changes of SV40 minichromosome-associated
replication proteins
Hans-Jo¨rg Riedinger, Maria van Betteraey-Nikoleit and Hans Probst
Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut der Universita¨t Tu¨bingen, Germany
Hypoxia interrupts the initiation of simian virus 40 (SV40)
replication in vivo at a stage situated before unwinding of
the origin region After re-oxygenation, unwinding followed
by a synchronous round of viral replication takes place
To further characterize the hypoxia-induced inhibition of
unwinding, we analysed the binding of several replication
proteins to the viral minichromosome before and after
re-oxygenation T antigen, the 34-kDa subunit of replication
protein A (RPA), topoisomerase I, the 48-kDa subunit of
primase, the 125-kDa subunit of polymerase d, and the
37-kDa subunit of replication factor C (RFC) were present
at the viral chromatin already under hypoxia The 70-kDa
subunit of RPA, the 180-kDa subunit of polymerase a, and
proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) were barely
detectable at the SV40 chromatin under hypoxia and
signi-ficantly increased after re-oxygenation
Immunoprecipita-tion of minichromosomes with T antigen-specific antibody
and subsequent digestion with micrococcus nuclease
revealed that most of the minichromosome-bound T antigen was associated with the viral origin in hypoxic and in re-oxygenated cells T antigen-catalysed unwinding of the SV40 origin occurred, however, only after re-oxygenation as indicated by (a) increased sensitivity of re-oxygenated minichromosomes against digestion with single-stranded DNA-specific nuclease P1; (b) stabilization of RPA-34 binding at the SV40 minichromosome; and (c) additional phosphorylations of RPA-34 after re-oxygenation, probably catalysed by DNA-dependent protein kinase The results presented suggest that the subunits of the proteins necessary for unwinding, primer synthesis and primer elongation first assemble at the SV40 origin in form of stable, active complexes directly before they start to work
Keywords: hypoxia; DNA unwinding; SV40; large T antigen; replicon initiation
DNA replication in mammalian cells is subject to a
regulation, which depends on the O2tension in the cellular
environment This regulation results in inhibition of cellular
replicon initiation when the concentration of O2falls below
0.1% Re-oxygenation after several hours of hypoxia causes
a burst of new initiations within a few minutes So far, this
regulatory phenomenon has been demonstrated for
Ehrlich-ascites, HeLa and CCRF cells [1–3] and it may be a general
mechanism, which adapts the cellular DNA replication to
the supply of O2and other nutrients This seems to be of
particular significance during embryonic growth, wound
healing or tumour cell propagation
The mechanism leading from re-oxygenation to replicon
initiation is largely obscure The remarkably fast resumption
of initiations after re-oxygenation suggests that the
O2-dependent replication control acts very directly on the
replication apparatus
O2-Dependent regulation of replicon initiation was also demonstrated for viral replication in simian virus 40 (SV40)-infected CV1 cells [4,5] As the replication of SV40 is relatively well investigated, this virus seems to be well suited
to examine the events leading to the reversible shutdown of replicon initiations by hypoxia As we have shown, reduc-tion of the pO2 to 0.1–0.02% suppresses the viral DNA synthesis Re-oxygenation results in new initiations followed
by an almost synchronous round of SV40 replication This synchronous round of replication was shown to begin at the viral origin [4]
After re-oxygenation, the viral replication starts with the unwinding of the viral origin region [5] This was shown by detection of a highly underwound SV40 topoisomer (form U) about 3 min after re-oxygenation Form U was not detectable under hypoxia Primer RNA-DNA synthesis was started 3–5 min after re-oxygenation As form U turned out to contain primer RNA-DNA, unwinding and primer synthesis may occur more or less concomitantly after the initial opening of the viral origin region
In vitro, the events leading to unwinding of the viral origin and subsequent DNA synthesis are characterized by the binding of replication proteins to the SV40 origin First, in
an ATP-dependent reaction, SV40 large T antigen binds as
a double hexamer to the viral origin, leading to local distortions of the origin region [6–11] Further local unwinding, catalysed by the helicase activity of the T antigen, depends on the binding of replication protein A (RPA) and topoisomerase I [12–15] After a stretch of
Correspondence to H.-J Riedinger, Physiologisch-chemisches Institut
der Universita¨t Tu¨bingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 4, D-72076 Tu¨bingen,
Germany.
Fax: + 49 7071293339, Tel.: + 49 70712972454,
E-mail: hans-joerg.riedinger@uni-tuebingen.de
Abbreviations: SV40, simian virus 40; RPA, replication protein A;
RFC, replication protein C; PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen;
ATM, ataxia telangiectasia-mutated.
(Received 18 December 2001, revised 20 March 2002,
accepted 22 March 2002)
Trang 2unwound DNA is generated, DNA polymerase a-primase
synthesizes RNA-DNA primers at the single-stranded
templates [16–18] Elongation of these primers involves
replication factor C (RFC), proliferating cell nuclear antigen
(PCNA), and DNA polymerase d [19–21]
In the present communication, we further try to define the
state, at which hypoxia interrupts the initiation of SV40
replication in vivo, by examining which replication proteins
are present in the viral minichromosome before and after
re-oxygenation The presented data indicate that unwinding
occurs immediately after re-oxygenation but not under
hypoxia We further demonstrate that a significant fraction
of the proteins engaged in viral replication is bound to the
SV40 minichromosome already under hypoxia, but that
none of the protein complexes necessary for unwinding,
primer synthesis and elongation seems to be completed
before the respective events actually take place
M A T E R I A L S A N D M E T H O D S
Transient hypoxia, re-oxygenation and radioactive
labelling
Monkey CV1 cells (ATCC CCL 70) were grown and
infected with SV40 as described previously [22] Transient
hypoxia was started 36 h after infection by gassing with
0.04% O2/5% CO2 and Ar to 100% for 6 h [4] For
re-oxygenation, 0.25 vol of medium equilibrated with
95% O2/5% CO2 was added to the hypoxic cell culture
and gassing was continued with artificial air [4]
To label newly formed DNA, [methyl-3
H]deoxythymi-dine was either added directly to the cells or, for hypoxic
labelling, by plunging a spatula carrying the appropriate
quantity in dried form into the culture medium For
long-term labelling of DNA, [2-14C]deoxythymidine
(5 nCiÆmL)1) was added to the cell cultures immediately
after infection with SV40
Staurosporine (Roche, Mannheim, Germany),
olomou-cine (ICN, Eschewed, Germany) or wortmannin (Alexis,
Gru¨nberg, Germany), dissolved in dimethylsulfoxide, were
applied to hypoxic cell cultures on a spatula after gassing in
a hypoxic chamber for 30 min
To stop incubations, the culture medium was removed by
aspiration and the cells were washed twice with ice-cold
NaCl/Pi[150 mM NaCl, 10 mM NaHPO4, (pH 7.0)] The
determination of acid-insoluble radioactivity has been
described previously [23]
Preparation of SV40 minichromosomes
Preparation of SV40 minichromosomes was performed
essentially as described by Su & DePamphilis [24] In brief,
SV40-infected CV1 cells of Petri dishes 132 mm in diameter
were used for preparation of the minichromosomes
Stopped cell cultures were washed twice with ice-cold
hypotonic buffer [10 mMHepes/KOH (pH 7.8), 5 mMKCl,
0.5 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM dithiothreitol] Cells were
homo-genized with five strokes in a Dounce homogenizer and the
nuclei were pelleted by centrifugation at 3000 g for 5 min
After resuspension in hypotonic buffer containing protease
inhibitor cocktail (Sigma, Deisenhofen, Germany), the
nuclei were eluted for 1.5 h at 0C and then pelleted by
centrifugation at 8000 g for 10 min The minichromosomes
in the supernatant were sedimented at 14 000 g in a Beckman TLA 100.2 rotor for 25 min at 4C and resuspended in an appropriate buffer Addition of ATP (4 mM) during the preparation of the minichromosomes was never found to change the results obtained This step was therefore generally omitted
Alkaline sedimentation analysis of viral DNA
in isolated minichromosomes and in nuclei SV40-infected cells were incubated at atmospheric pO2or re-oxygenated after 6 h of hypoxia for 10 or 25 min Ten minutes before the end of incubation, cells were pulse-labelled with 10 lCiÆmL)1 [methyl-3H]deoxythymidine Incubation was then stopped and minichromosomes were eluted from the nuclei for 1.5 h as described above After sedimentation of the nuclei, the minichromosome-con-taining supernatant or the nuclei resuspended in NaCl/Pi were brought to 0.2MNaOH, incubated for 1 h at room temperature and loaded on top of a 5–40% linear sucrose gradient in 0.25M NaOH, 0.6M NaCl, 1 mM
EDTA, 0.1% sodium lauroylsarcosinate After centrifu-gation in a Beckman SW40 rotor at 164 000 g and 23C for 16 h, 0.6-mL fractions were collected from the top of the gradient and analysed for acid-insoluble radioactivity [23]
Electrophoresis of minichromosome-bound proteins, Western blotting
Minichromosomes resuspended in NaCl/Pi were diluted with 10 vol of 10 mMsodium pyrophosphate and 10 mM
EDTA (pH 8.0), and proteins were extracted with 4 vol of phenol (pH 8.0) The phenolic phase was then extracted twice with the same volume of 10 mMsodium pyrophos-phate, 10 mMEDTA (pH 8.0) and proteins were precipi-tated by addition of 5 vol of acetone at)20 C overnight After centrifugation at 200 000 g, 4C for 45 min, the pellet was successively washed with chloroform/CHCl3and methanol, dried and redissolved in 5 mM Tris/HCl (pH 7.5)
The proteins were separated on an 8% SDS/polyacryl-amide gel [25] and then blotted onto a nitrocellulose membrane with a semidry blot device (Pharmacia, Freiburg, Germany) Immunodetection of replication proteins was done with the ECL Western blotting kit (Amersham, Freiburg, Germany) according to the protocol of the manufacturer Dilutions of antibodies used were as follows:
T antigen (monoclonal antibody, clone pAB 101, kind gift
of H Stahl, Homburg/Saar, Germany), 1 : 100 of the hybridoma supernatant; RPA (monoclonal antibodies against the 34-kDa and 70-kDa subunits, kind gifts from
J Hurwitz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA), 1 : 200 and 1 : 100 of the hybridoma super-natant, respectively; topoisomerase I (polyclonal antibody, TopoGen Inc., Columbus, USA), 1 UÆmL)1; primase (polyclonal antibody against the 48-kDa subunit, kind gift
of H.-P Nasheuer, Institut fu¨r medizinische Biochemie, Jena, Germany), 1 : 2000; polymerase a (polyclonal anti-body against the 180-kDa subunit, kind gift of H.-P Nasheuer, Institut fu¨r medizinische Biochemie, Jena, Germany), 1 : 1000; RFC (polyclonal antibody against the 37-kDa subunit, a kind gift of J Hurwitz, Memorial
Trang 3Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA), 1 : 1000;
PCNA (monoclonal antibody, clone 19F4, Roche,
Mannheim, Germany) 2 lgÆmL)1; polymerase d
(monoclo-nal antibody against the 125-kDa subunit, Transduction
laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany) 1 : 1000
Digestion of immunoprecipitated minichromosomes
with micrococcus nuclease and correlation
of the digestion products with the SV40 genome
SV40-infected cells were incubated hypoxically for 6 h and
simultaneously labelled with [methyl-3H]deoxythymidine
(10 lCiÆmL)1) Thereafter, cells were either stopped or
re-oxygenated for 6 min and then stopped
Minichromo-somes were isolated as described above For
immunopre-cipitation, 10 mL of T antigen-specific hybridoma
supernatant (clone pAB 101) were incubated with
pro-tein A agarose (20 mg, Biorad, Richmond, USA) for 1 h
at 4C Thereafter, protein A agarose was pelleted and
minichromosomes were bound by incubation for 90 min at
4C in NET buffer [150 mM NaCl, 50 mM Tris/HCl
(pH 7.5), 5 mM EDTA, 0.5% Nonidet P40] The
immu-noprecipitate was then washed three times with NET
buffer and resuspended in 500 lL Tris/HCl, pH 7.4
(10 mM), CaCl2 (1 mM) Subsequently, digestion with
micrococcus nuclease (48 U) was performed at 37C for
25 min The immunoprecipitate and the supernatant were
then incubated for 1 h at 37C with proteinase K
(40 lgÆmL)1), SDS (0.5%) and extracted with phenol/
CHCl3 The DNA was precipitated with ethanol,
redis-solved and hybridized against membrane-fixed,
single-stranded M13mp18 DNA containing segments of the
SV40 genome cloned in either direction into the plasmid
SmaI site by standard procedures [26] For fixation of the
single-stranded SV40 probes onto nylon membrane,
400 ng DNA was dissolved in 200 lL 10· NaCl/Cit
(1.5M NaCl, 0.15M sodium citrate, pH 7.0), heated to
65C for 10 min and chilled on ice The DNA was then
transferred to the membrane (2 cm in diameter), dried at
37C and fixed by UV irradiation Hybridization was
performed at 37C, as described previously [27] After
hybridization, the radioactivity bound to each of 14
probes, representing both complementary DNA strands
of seven SV40 genome fragments (see inset in Fig 3), was
quantified and normalized for size of the respective SV40
segment
Nuclease P1 digestion of SV40 minichromosomes
SV40 minichromosomes isolated from hypoxic and
re-oxygenated cell cultures were digested with nuclease P1
essentially as described by Adachi & Laemmli [28] After
sedimentation, the minichromosomes were redissolved in
HMN buffer [5 mMHepes/NaOH (pH 7.5), 8 mMMgCl2,
100 mM NaCl] and one half was digested with 1 U of
nuclease P1 [Pharmacia, Freiburg, Germany; 1 UÆlL)1
stock in 8.5 mMsodium acetate (pH 6.0), 50% glycerol] for
10 s at 37C Digestion was stopped by the addition of
15 vol of ice-cold RIPA buffer Thereafter,
minichro-mosomes were immunoprecipitated with T
antigen-anti-body-saturated protein A agarose and digested with
proteinase K, as described above After phenol/CHCl3
extraction, DNA was precipitated with ethanol and
analysed on a 1% agarose gel in TAE buffer [40 mMTris,
5 mMsodium acetate, 1 mMEDTA (pH 7.8)]
SV40 DNA isolation from cell cultures, chloroquine gel electrophoresis, Southern blotting, hybridization SV40 DNA from whole cells was isolated as described previously [5] Washed cells were lysed and digested in 0.25MEDTA (pH 8.0), 1% sodium lauroylsarcosinate and
100 lgÆmL)1proteinase K at 55C for 3 h The lysate was then extracted twice with phenol/CHCl3 and dialyzed against 1 mM Tris/0.1 mM EDTA (pH 8.0) at 4C over-night After digestion with RNase A (100 lgÆmL)1at 37C for 1 h), 100 ng of isolated DNA per slot was loaded onto a
25· 20 cm agarose gel containing 20 lgÆmL)1chloroquine
in gel buffer (30 mMNaH2PO4, 36 mMTris, 1 mMEDTA) Electrophoresis was carried out at 2 VÆcm)1and 4C for
20 h Southern blotting was performed under alkaline conditions [26] The DNA was detected by hybridization [27] using a32P-labeled, BamHI-linearized SV40 probe
Competition of RPA-34 binding to minichromosomes
by single-stranded DNA SV40 minichromosomes of hypoxic and re-oxygenated cell cultures were eluted as described above After sedimentation
of the nuclei, the supernatant was divided and one half was incubated with 40 lgÆmL)1sonicated, heat-denatured her-ring sperm DNA for 30 min at 30C, whereas the other half was incubated without competitor DNA Thereafter, the minichromosomes were pelleted by ultracentrifugation, resuspended in NaCl/Piand processed for Western blotting
as described above
R E S U L T S Eluted minichromosomes represent the state of viral replication in SV40-infected cells
Elution of SV40 minichromosomes from isolated nuclei of infected CV1 cells in hypotonic buffer usually yielded 35%
of total viral minichromosomes (data not shown) In order
to show that the eluted fraction of SV40 minichromosomes
is representative of the overall SV40 replication in the infected cells, SV40 DNA isolated from minichromosomes was compared with that remaining in the eluted nuclei, using alkaline sedimentation analysis
SV40-infected CV1 cells were either grown under atmo-spheric pO2or re-oxygenated after 6 h hypoxia for 10 or
25 min and labelled with [methyl-3H]deoxythymidine dur-ing the last 10 min of the incubation SV40 minichromo-somes and resuspended eluted nuclei were brought to 0.2M
NaOH and incubated for 1 h at room temperature
3H-Labeled DNA in the lysates was then analysed for size
by alkaline sucrose gradient centrifugation As a control, noninfected, normoxically cultivated CV1 cells where trea-ted exactly in the same way
Figure 1 shows that there were no significant differences between the peak positions, i.e the lengths of growing DNA strands, in minichromosomes and nuclei Incubating cell cultures under atmospheric pO2 (Fig 1A,B) resulted in peaks around fraction 10, representing full-length SV40 DNA Additionally, a peak at fraction 18, representing
Trang 4covalently closed, supercoiled SV40 DNA was visible.
Accordingly, this peak was predominant in long-term
labelled DNA (circles) Minichromosomes containing
long-term labelled (supercoiled) SV40 DNA seemed to
preferably remain in the nuclei, as only 10–20% were eluted compared to 30–50% of the pulse-labelled (replicating) SV40 DNA (squares) With re-oxygenated cells, peaks at fraction 8, representing growing DNA of 2 kb, 10 min after re-oxygenation (Fig 1C,D), and at fraction 11, representing full length DNA, 25 min after re-oxygenation (Fig 1E,F), were obtained
Essentially the same profiles were found when viral DNA of whole SV40-infected cells cultivated under the same conditions was analysed [4,5] The fraction of eluted SV40 minichromosomes was therefore taken to be repre-sentative of the overall minichromosomes in infected cells Figure 1G,H shows the sedimentation profiles of nonin-fected CV1 cells As expected, no DNA was found in the eluate of nuclei (Fig 1G), whereas DNA of the nuclei sedimented to the bottom (fraction 20) of the sucrose gradient (Fig 1H) These results suggest that the sedi-mentation profiles shown in Fig 1A–F are specific for SV40
Differential pattern of minichromosome-bound replication proteins occur before
and after re-oxygenation of hypoxic cells Initiation of SV40 DNA replication is inhibited at a stage before unwinding in hypoxically cultivated cells After re-oxygenation, unwinding and RNA-DNA primer synthe-sis are detectable after 3 min [5]
We asked whether re-oxygenation is accompanied by sequential binding of different replication proteins, which are necessary to catalyse these steps
SV40-infected cell cultures were grown hypoxically for
6 h and stopped or re-oxygenated for 1, 3, or 5 min and then stopped Proteins of SV40 minichromosomes were prepared, separated by SDS/PAGE and blotted to a nitrocellulose membrane Chosen proteins were then detec-ted with specific antibodies As quantification of Western blots is known to be difficult, reproducibility of the results was carefully ascertained, especially in cases where changes before and after re-oxygenation were found to be small (e.g for T antigen or polymerase a-180) Each protein was tested
in at least three independent experiments and representative results are shown in Fig 2
RPA-34, topoisomerase I, primase-48, RFC-37, and polymerase d-125 were associated with the SV40 minichro-mosomes already under hypoxia For RPA-34 and RFC-37, longer exposure times were chosen to accentuate slower migrating bands If at all, only minor differences in signal intensities were found for these proteins irrespective whether they were isolated from minichromosomes of hypoxic or re-oxygenated cell cultures In case of RPA-34 and RFC-37, this was confirmed by shorter exposure (data not shown) Topoisomerase I, the 34-kDa subunit of RPA and the 37-kDa subunit of RFC seemed to exist in several modi-fications (Fig 2) Two dimensional gel electrophoresis (first dimension: isoelectric focusing; second dimension: SDS/ PAGE) of SV40 minichromosome-bound proteins, Western blotting and immunodetection revealed that, for RPA-34 and RFC-37, these modifications differed significantly in their isoelectric points but only slightly in their molecular masses (data not shown) This suggests that they are differently phosphorylated species The patterns of topo-isomerase and RFC- 37 were the same irrespective of the
Fig 1 Alkaline sucrose gradient centrifugation of viral DNA of
mini-chromosomes eluted from nuclei of normoxically cultivated or
re-oxy-genated SV 40-infected CV 1 cells and of the nuclei remaining after the
elution Cells were cultivated under normoxic conditions (A,B) or
re-oxygenated after 6 h of hypoxia for 10 min (C,D) or 25 min (E,F)
and labelled with 10 lCi of [methyl- 3 H]deoxythymidine per mL during
the last 10 min of the incubation (j) Cell nuclei were eluted with
hypotonic buffer and the DNA of the minichromosomes (A,C,E) and
of the nuclei (B,D,F) was analysed by alkaline sedimentation (G,H)
Sedimentation of DNA of noninfected CV1 cells treated exactly as
(A,B) Sedimentation was from left to right (d) DNA labelled by
addition of [2-14C]deoxythymidine (5 nCiÆmL)1) immediately after
infection of CV1 cells with SV40.
Trang 5incubation conditions, whereas RPA-34 was obviously
phosphorylated additionally after re-oxygenation The
degree and timing of the appearance of additional
phos-phorylations of RPA-34 varied somewhat in different
experiments (compare Fig 2 with Fig 6B) First changes
of the phosphorylation pattern were, however, almost
always detectable as early as 1 min after re-oxygenation
Two bands were detectable for the catalytic subunit of
polymerase d As the difference in electrophoretic mobility
was rather pronounced considering the molecular mass of
polymerase d, it seems unlikely that the two bands represent
different phosphorylation forms of the protein Rather, the
lower band may be a degradation product of the upper
Recently, Schumacher et al [29] isolated a N- terminal
truncated form of polymerase d with an apparent molecular
mass of 116 kDa, approximately the same size as the lower
band of polymerase d detected by us
The ratio of the intensities of both bands significantly
changed The upper band increased 3 and 5 min after
re-oxygenation, while the lower band decreased The sum of
the bands remained, however, largely constant This was
especially evident in preparations that yielded essentially
equal signal intensities of both bands from the beginning
Supposing the lower band to be a degradation product of
the upper, this result could indicate that polymerase d was
better protected against degradation when it was stably
bound to its target at the replication fork, i.e during primer
elongation
An unexpected binding behaviour showed T antigen
Under hypoxia, it was associated with the chromatin but
decreased immediately after re-oxygenation to about one
third Three minutes after re-oxygenation, the amount of
minichromosome-bound T antigen increased again and
attained the level seen under hypoxia until 5 min after
re-oxygenation
The 70-kDa subunit of RPA, the 180-kDa subunit of
DNA polymerase a, and PCNA were barely detectable in
hypoxic minichromosomes After re-oxygenation, the
amount of all three proteins significantly increased, though
at different times RPA-70 increased after just 1 min and
further increased up to 3 min, remaining then at a
constant level The amount of polymerase a-180 first
increased 3 min after re-oxygenation and remained
unchanged thereafter PCNA also increased after 3 min
and further increased until 5 min after re-oxygenation
These binding patterns suggest that the proteins are
recruited to the minichromosome (at least in a form bound
stably enough to resist minichromosome isolation) in the same order they actually start to function in replication
T antigen is bound to the viral origin of replication
in SV40 minichromosomes Figure 2 shows that T antigen is detectable at the SV40 chromatin under hypoxia and after re-oxygenation As several T antigen-binding sites exist in the SV40 genome, we determined the genome region, where T antigen is bound under hypoxia and after re-oxygenation
SV40 minichromosomes labelled with [methyl-3 H]deoxy-thymidine were isolated from hypoxic or re-oxygenated cell cultures and immunoprecipitated using protein A agarose-bound T antigen antibody The immunoprecipitate was resuspended and digested with micrococcus nuclease After digestion, the immunoprecipitate was pelleted by centrifu-gation, and DNA fragments were isolated from the pellet and the supernatant and hybridized against membrane-fixed single-stranded probes containing different segments
of the SV40 genome (see inset of Fig 3) For each SV40 restriction fragment, two single-stranded probes, represent-ing both complementary DNA strands, existed The sum of radioactivity bound by both probes of each fragment is shown in Fig 3
DNA isolated from the immunoprecipitate, i.e DNA fragments that were associated with T antigen before purification, mainly hybridized to SV40 probes 1a and 1, irrespective whether cells were re-oxygenated for 6 min or kept hypoxic (Fig 3A,C) This means that T antigen is preferably bound to the core origin (represented by probe 1a) or to the whole SV40 origin region (represented
by probe 1) After re-oxygenation, but not under hypoxia, some DNA also hybridized to probe 4, indicating that
T antigen was also associated with SV40 DNA containing the termination region at this time As 6 min of re-oxygenation are not sufficient to allow complete replica-tion of the whole SV40 genome [4,5], associareplica-tion of T antigen with this fragment likely results from elongation of SV40 replicons, which were started, but not yet terminated, before or during hypoxia
DNA fragments isolated from the supernatant of the immunoprecipitation hybridized more or less uniformly to all probes except 1a (Fig 3B,D) As 1a represents the SV40 core origin, this result indicates that, in most minichromo-somes, the core origin is protected against digestion with micrococcus nuclease by association with T antigen
Fig 2 Immunodetection of
minichromosome-associated replication proteins
Minichromo-some-bound proteins isolated from hypoxic
(H) or re-oxygenated (re-oxygenation times
are indicated) SV40-infected cell cultures were
separated by SDS-PAA gel electrophoresis,
Western blotted and detected with appropriate
antibodies.
Trang 6Sensitivity of SV40 minichromosomes to single-stranded
DNA-specific nuclease P1 increases after re-oxygenation
The slight increase in the amount of
minichromosome-bound RPA-70 together with additional phosphorylation of
RPA-34 1 min after re-oxygenation (Fig 2) indicates the
occurrence of single-stranded DNA [30–34] and therefore
probably the beginning of unwinding of the SV40
chroma-tin (see below)
To independently examine the existence of unwound
DNA, we used the single-stranded DNA-specific nuclease
P1 This enzyme has been successfully used in a similar
study by Adachi & Laemmli to detect unwound DNA
regions in Xenopus sperm nuclei [28]
SV40 minichromosomes of hypoxic and re-oxygenated
cell cultures were divided in two halves, and one half was
exposed to nuclease P1 and immunoprecipitated, while the
other half was immunoprecipitated without digestion After
that, the SV40 DNA was isolated, separated on a 1%
agarose gel, blotted and detected by hybridization using a
32P-labeled SV40-specific probe The signal intensities of
supercoiled and open circle SV40 DNA of P1-digested and
undigested minichromosomes were quantified densitomet-rically and compared (the undigested signal was set as 100%) Essentially no difference between the signal inten-sities of DNA from undigested and digested minichromo-somes of hypoxic cell cultures was found (Fig 4) This indicates that significant unwinding does not occur under hypoxia Smaller local distortions, which were detected after binding of T antigen to SV40 site II at the early palindrome and the AT-rich region in vitro [6–11], may exist under hypoxia They may, however, be protected against digestion
by micrococcus nuclease through the origin-bound T antigen hexamer In vitro DNase protection assays demon-strated that the entire 64-bp core origin is protected against digestion by DNase I, when T antigen is bound [6,35] After re-oxygenation, the minichromosomes became more sensitive to nuclease P1 digestion, resulting in an increase of nicked open circle DNA and in a decrease of supercoiled DNA compared to the undigested fraction P1 susceptibility of the minichromosomes became apparent just 1 min after re-oxygenation and remained constant for longer re-oxygenation times, indicating that the length of the unwound DNA stretch is not decisive for P1 digestion in
Fig 3 Localization of T antigen at the SV40 chromatin.3H[thymidine]-labelled minichro-mosomes isolated from hypoxic (A,B) or re-oxygenated (C,D) SV40-infected CV1 cells were immunoprecipitated with T antigen antibody-saturated protein A agarose The immunoprecipitate was resuspended and digested with micrococcus nuclease After centrifugation, DNA fragments were isolated from the immunoprecipitate and the super-natant and analysed by hybridization against membrane-fixed single-stranded M13mp18 DNA containing segments of the SV40 genome (see inset) For each SV40 restriction fragment, two single-stranded probes, repre-senting both complementary DNA strands, existed The radioactivity bound to the mem-brane-fixed SV40 probes was measured, nor-malized for fragment size, and added up for both probes of each SV40 genome segment (A,C) Membrane-bound DNA fragments of the immunoprecipitate (A) hypoxic cells, (C) cells re-oxygenated for 6 min; (B,D) Mem-brane-bound DNA fragments of the super-natant (B) hypoxic cells, (D) cells re-oxygenated for 6 min Inset: Cleavage sites
of restriction enzymes used to generate the set
of SV40-specific single-stranded DNA probes Restriction fragment 1a harbours the SV40 core origin of replication.
Trang 7this test Only about 20–30% of the minichromosomes were
sensitive to nuclease P1 digestion As digestion of
re-oxygenated minichromosomes with one tenth of nuclease
P1 activity yielded the same amount of open circle DNA
(data not shown), it may be concluded that the digestion
was complete This again indicates that only a minor
fraction of the immunoprecipitable minichromosomes was
actually engaged in replication 5 min after re-oxygenation
RPA-34 is dissociated from hypoxic minichromosomes
by addition of single-stranded competitor DNA
RPA-34 was found to be associated with hypoxic
mini-chromosomes, despite of the facts that RPA-70 was barely
detectable (Fig 2) and that the viral genome was obviously
not unwound before re-oxygenation (Fig 4) As the
inter-action between RPA and single-stranded DNA is largely
mediated by RPA-70 [36,37], these observations together
indicate that RPA-34 is bound to the viral chromosome by
protein–protein interactions or by any other means than
interaction with single-stranded DNA under hypoxic
culture conditions Following re-oxygenation, part or all
of the prebound RPA-34 may become integrated into the
RPA heterotrimer complex
In order to examine which amount of RPA-34 was bound
to unwound SV40 minichromosome DNA in form of a
RPA heterotrimer complex before and after re-oxygenation,
we made use of the fact that, once bound to single-stranded
DNA, the resulting complex cannot be disrupted by excess
single-stranded competitor DNA [28] RPA-34 bound by
other means to the SV40 minichromosome, on the other
hand, is readily displaced by excess competitor DNA
(see below), probably because it contains a single-stranded DNA-binding motif [38,39]
We therefore treated minichromosomes isolated from hypoxic or re-oxygenated cell cultures with an excess of single-stranded herring sperm DNA (Fig 5B) and com-pared the dissociation of RPA-34 with the respective untreated control (Fig 5A) RPA-34 was found to be almost totally displaced from minichromosomes of hypoxic cell cultures Minichromosomes from cells re-oxygenated for longer than 3 min, on the other hand, retained part of their RPA-34 Higher phosphorylated forms of RPA-34 were almost undetectable, as shown in Fig 5, indicating that they were probably not resistant to incubation at 30C under the chosen conditions Note that isolation of mini-chromosomes was usually performed at 4C throughout Alternatively, a phosphatase may have dephosphorylated RPA-34 during the incubation
Minichromosome-bound RPA-70 was resistant to dis-placement by single-stranded competitor DNA (data not shown) Altogether, the results indicate that from only
3 min after re-oxygenation onwards, i.e the time we have detected significant unwinding of the SV40 genome [5], an increasing amount of RPA-34 is bound to the viral minichromosome in the form of a single-stranded DNA-associated RPA trimer complex
Phosphorylation of the 34-kDa subunit of RPA is not essential for unwinding of the viral minichromosome
As mentioned above, the 34-kDa subunit of RPA is additionally phosphorylated immediately after re-oxygen-ation Phosphorylation of p34 has been suggested to influence initiation efficiency of SV40 DNA replication [40] under hypoxia In vitro, however, SV40 replication proceeds normally, irrespective whether RPA-34 is phos-phorylated or not [38] Among the kinases described so far
to phosphorylate RPA-34 in vivo are cdk2-cyclin A, cdc2-cyclin B, ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM), and DNA-dependent protein kinase [32,33,41–43] These kinases are effectively inhibited by staurosporine [44,45] or olomoucine [45,46], and wortmannin [47], respectively
To examine whether phosphorylations catalysed by the above mentioned kinases are essential for initiation of SV40 replication after re-oxygenation, we tested the influence of these inhibitors on the formation of SV40 form U, which
Fig 4 Sensitivity of minichromosomes of hypoxic and re-oxygenated
cell cultures to single-stranded DNA-specific nuclease P1 Aliquots of
SV40 minichromosomes of hypoxic or re-oxygenated cells were
immunoprecipitated with immobilized T antigen-specific antibody
with or without prior digestion with P1 nuclease (1 U) SV40 DNA
was isolated, separated on an agarose gel, blotted and detected by a
32 P-labeled DNA-probe Signal intensities of open circle and
super-coiled SV40 DNA-bands were quantified by densitometric evaluation.
The signal intensities of the undigested aliquots were set as 100% d,
signal intensity of open circle DNA (oc); j, signal intensity of
super-coiled DNA (sc) H, hypoxic.
Fig 5 Dissociation of minichromosome-bound RPA-34 by excess competitor single-stranded DNA Minichromosomes of hypoxic or re-oxygenated SV40-infected cell cultures were incubated without (A)
or with (B) 40 lgÆmL)1of denatured herring sperm DNA for 30 min
at 30 C Minichromosome-bound proteins were isolated, separated
by SDS/PAGE and Western blotted The RPA subunits were detected with specific antibodies Exposure times were the same for (A) and (B) Re-oxygenation times are indicated H, hypoxic cells.
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origin region in vivo [5] The inhibitors were added to the
hypoxically cultivated cell cultures 30 min before
re-oxy-genation After re-oxygenation for 6 min, whole-cell DNA
was isolated and separated on a chloroquine containing gel
Form U was detected after blotting by a SV40-specific
probe Figure 6A shows that none of the inhibitors
suppressed formation of form U, indicating that, after
re-oxygenation, phosphorylations catalysed by protein
kinases which are sensitive to staurosporine, olomoucine
or wortmannin are not essential for unwinding
In a further experiment, we examined the effect of the same inhibitors on phosphorylation of RPA-34 after re-oxygenation (Fig 6B) Staurosporine and olomoucine had no influence on the phosphorylation of RPA-34, whereas wortmannin inhibited formation of all higher phosphorylated p34-species As only ATM and DNA-dependent protein kinase are described so far to phos-phorylate RPA-34 and are sensitive to wortmannin, it seems likely that one or both of them phosphorylate(s) RPA-34 after re-oxygenation However, other wortmannin-sensitive protein kinases cannot be excluded
D I S C U S S I O N Initiation of SV40 DNA replication is inhibited in cells cultivated under hypoxic conditions The hypoxic block was shown to be situated before the unwinding of the viral origin region and primer synthesis by polymerase a-primase [4,5] After re-oxygenation, unwinding and primer synthesis were detectable within 3–5 min followed by an almost synchron-ous round of viral replication The present study intended to further characterize the hypoxia-induced inhibition of unwinding by analysis of the binding of distinct replication proteins to the SV40 minichromosome before and after re-oxygenation We found that T antigen, RPA-34, topo-isomerase I, primase-48, RFC-37, and polymerase d-125 were bound to the viral minichromosome already before re-oxygenation RPA-70, polymerase a-180, and PCNA were barely detectable under hypoxia and increased signi-ficantly after re-oxygenation (Fig 2) The small amounts of these proteins, which were detectable under hypoxia, may
be bound to originally replicative viral chromosomes, which were no more replicated during the hypoxic period [4] These chromosomes amount up to 5% of the replication-competent viral chromatin
In vitrostudies on SV40 DNA replication suggest that the following steps occur during initiation First, in an ATP-dependent reaction, SV40 large T antigen binds as a double hexamer to the viral origin, leading to local distortions in the AT-rich region and partial melting of the early palindrome [7–11] The denatured DNA in the early palindrome is then bound by RPA, possibly at the pyrimidine-rich top strand [8,13,48,49] RPA is first associated in form of an unstable complex (RPA8nt), in which it binds eight nucleotides of single-stranded DNA [13,30,31] After further unwinding of the origin, including part of the central palindrome, RPA8nt turns into a stable complex (RPA30nt), in which RPA contacts about 30 nucleotides of single-stranded DNA Formation of the RPA30nt-complex may be followed by phosphorylation of the RPA-34 subunit [30,31,49] Partial denaturation of the central palindrome leads to loss of interaction of T antigen with its recognition sequence at site
II and probably to activation of its helicase activity [49] This in turn may initiate more extensive unwinding of the viral genome, followed by primer synthesis and elongation Supposing that in vivo initiation of SV40 replication proceeds similarly, association of T antigen with the SV40 genome (Figs 2 and 3) indicates that the first step of initiation, i.e recognition and binding of the viral origin, is not inhibited under hypoxia
Figure 3 indicates that after re-oxygenation, a significant part of the minichromosome-bound T antigen remains associated with the core origin In accordance with this
Fig 6 Effect of different protein kinase inhibitors on generation of
SV40 form U and phosphorylation of RPA-34 after re-oxygenation.
Staurosporine (10 l M ), olomoucine (100 l M ) or wortmannin (20 l M )
were added to SV40-infected CV1 cells 30 min before re-oxygenation.
After re-oxygenation for 6 min, SV40 DNA (A) or
minichromosome-bound proteins (B) were isolated SV40 DNA was separated on a
chloroquine containing agarose gel, blotted and detected by
hybrid-ization against a SV40-specific DNA probe Minichromosome-bound
proteins were separated by SDS-PAA gel electrophoresis and Western
blotted The p34 subunit of RPA was detected with a specific antibody.
1, hypoxic cells, not re-oxygenated; 2, cells re-oxygenated without
inhibitor; 3, cells re-oxygenated in the presence of staurosporine; 4,
cells re-oxygenated in the presence of olomoucine; 5, cells
re-oxygen-ated in the presence of wortmannin LC, late Cairns SV40 DNA; IC,
intermediate Cairns SV40 DNA; T, topoisomers of mature SV40
DNA (form I); U, form U.
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origin region revealed no differences between hypoxic and
re-oxygenated minichromosomes (data not shown) What
may be the reason that T antigen remains bound to the SV40
origin after initiation of replication? Several explanations are
possible First, initiation of replication upon re-oxygenation
is not exactly synchronous Secondly, only a part of the T
antigen-containing minichromosomes actually replicate,
and thirdly, the duplicated origin may be rebound by free
T antigen, leading to restoration of the state before
re-oxygenation The last mentioned notion is supported by
the observation that, after a significant decrease 1 min after
re-oxygenation, minichromosome-bound T antigen was
found to be re-elevated 3 and 5 min after re-oxygenation
(Fig 2)
Unwinding of the viral origin, primer synthesis and primer
elongation are dependent on re-oxygenation This has been
shown previously [5] and is also demonstrated by the results
presented here The data indicate that unwinding is initiated
as soon as 1 min after re-oxygenation (a) The
minichromo-somes were sensitive to single-stranded DNA-specific
nuc-lease P1 at this time (Fig 4) (b) RPA-70, which is
responsible for binding of RPA to single-stranded DNA
[36,37], increased slightly as soon as 1 min after
re-oxygenation (Fig 2) (c) Additional phosphorylations of
RPA-34, probably catalysed by ATM and/or
DNA-dependent protein kinase, were detectable 1 min after
re-oxygenation (Fig 2) The fact that at least some of these
phosphorylations depend on RPA’s binding to
single-stranded DNA [30–34] points to the beginning of unwinding
Extensive and constant primer RNA-DNA synthesis
does not seem to occur before 3 min after re-oxygenation
This is suggested by the fact that minichromosome-bound
polymerase a-180 increased significantly just 3 min after
re-oxygenation and then remained unchanged (Fig 2) Primer
synthesis may depend on larger single-stranded bubbles
which are only attained after 3 min Consistently, RPA-70
increased until 3 min and the fraction of RPA-34, which
could not be displaced by addition of single-stranded
competitor DNA, i.e the fraction which was probably
complexed in single-stranded DNA bound RPA [28],
increased until 5 min after re-oxygenation (Fig 5)
PCNA binding and stabilization of polymerase d-125
against degradation, probably indicating primer elongation,
were detectable 3 min after re-oxygenation and further
increased until 5 min (Fig 2)
Considering the binding behaviour of all proteins
exam-ined, it is noticeable that some of them are stably bound to
the minichromosome only at the moment they are actually
needed (RPA-70, polymerase a-180, PCNA), whereas
others are present in minichromosomes already under
hypoxia (RPA-34, topoisomerase, primase-48, RFC-37,
polymerase d-125) Remarkably, individual subunits of
protein complexes, generally believed to act only in a
complexed form, e.g RPA-34 and -70, primase and
polymerase a, or RFC, PCNA and polymerase d, behave
differently in this respect Murti et al [50] found that the
RPA subunits also partition differently during the cell cycle
The authors demonstrated that the subunits colocalized
only during the G1-and S-phase of the cell cycle During
mitosis, the subunits dissociated and partitioned into
different cell compartments; p34 was found at the
chromosomes, p70 at the spindle poles and p11 in the
cytoplasm Despite of the fact that hypoxic SV40-infected cells probably never leave a S-phase-like state, these results show that the different subunits of RPA are not necessarily assembled in the heterotrimer complex but may also exist as single proteins in the living cell
Altogether, the presented results situate the hypoxia-induced block of SV40 replication somewhere between binding of the T antigen to site II and unwinding of the viral origin The mechanism, which triggers the release of the block following re-oxygenation, remains unclear Clearly, the period between re-oxygenation and beginning of unwinding is too short to allow changes in gene expression
or other time-consuming processes The possibility that some proteins have to be synthesized before initiation is ruled out by the fact that inhibition of protein biosynthesis
by emetine immediately before re-oxygenation has no influence on unwinding and the following viral replication round (data not shown) Moreover, all replication proteins that were not associated with the viral minichromosome under hypoxia (i.e RPA-70, polymerase a-180, PCNA) were detectable in the cell lysate of hypoxic SV40-infected cells by the respective antibodies (data not shown) This indicates that the proteins necessary to replicate the SV40 genome are present under hypoxia
One mechanism to prevent premature initiation may be sequestration of essential replication proteins The protein subunits, which are not detectable in hypoxic minichromo-somes, may be bound to other proteins and thus excluded from association with the SV40 chromatin as long as hypoxia lasts Alternatively, the minichromosome-bound subunits may interact with other (minichromosome-bound) proteins through a domain necessary for complex formation under hypoxia In principle, both possibilities can prevent forma-tion of funcforma-tional protein complexes, like the RPA hetero-trimer or polymerase a-primase After re-oxygenation, these unproductive protein–protein interactions may be resolved,
by so far unknown mechanisms, in favour of functional proteins, which then initiate viral DNA synthesis The active inhibition of complex formation may be part of a mechanism that prevents uncontrolled unwinding and replication under hypoxia or otherwise unfavourable conditions
Besides this, other possibilities are conceivable Unwind-ing may depend on dephosphorylation of serine residues
120 and 123 of T antigen by protein phosphatase 2A Dephosphorylation was shown to be necessary for T antigen-catalyzed origin unwinding in vitro [51,52] Binding
of T antigen to the viral origin as a double hexamer, on the other hand, was possible irrespective of whether Ser120 and
123 were phosphorylated or not Effective unwinding is also influenced by phosphorylation of Thr124 of T antigen, probably catalysed by cyclin A/cdk2 [53–56] As neither staurosporine nor olomoucine, both inhibitors of cyclin A/ cdk2, inhibit formation of form U, i.e unwinding, after re-oxygenation (Fig 6A), it seems likely that Thr124 is phosphorylated before re-oxygenation
Alternatively, binding of transcription factors like AP1 or NFjB may be necessary to activate unwinding after re-oxygenation [57–61]
In a recent study, we have shown that glucose in millimolar concentrations prevents hypoxia-induced inhibi-tion of SV40 DNA replicainhibi-tion in infected CV1 cells [62] As
we have outlined in this study, though O2and glucose are main substrates for cellular ATP generation, it seems
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SV40 replication under hypoxia This was suggested by the
finding that the ATP concentration remained unchanged in
SV40-infected CV1 cells during a 4-h hypoxic incubation,
whereas unwinding, as determined by generation of SV40
form U, and incorporation of [methyl-3H]deoxythymidine
into DNA declined to below 20% of control levels
Nevertheless, we cannot exclude the possibility that while
overall cellular ATP concentration remains constant,
chan-ges of ATP concentration in cellular compartments, e.g the
nucleus, occur under hypoxia
A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
We thank G Probst for critical reading of the manuscript We
acknowledge J Hurwitz for RPA-34, RPA-70, and RFC-37
antibod-ies, H.-P Nasheuer for primase-48 and polymerase a-180 antibodies
and H Stahl for hybridoma cell line pAB 101 This work was
supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (grant Pr95/11–1).
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