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Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 2001, p. 4938-4948, Vol. 21, No. 15
Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park
Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
Received 11 October 2000/Returned for modification 4 December
2000/Accepted 9 May 2001
Chromosomal replicators in budding yeast contain an autonomously
replicating sequence (ARS) that functions in a plasmid, but certain
ARSs are silent as replication origins in their natural chromosomal
context. In chromosome III, the HML ARS cluster
(ARS302-ARS303-ARS320) and ARS301 flank the
transcriptionally silent mating-type locus HML, and all of
these ARSs are silent as replication origins. ARS301 and
ARS302 function in transcriptional silencing mediated by
the origin recognition complex (ORC) and a heterochromatin structure,
while the functions of ARS303 and ARS320 are
not known. In this work, we discovered replication fork pause sites at
the HML ARS cluster and ARS301 by analyzing DNA
replication intermediates from the chromosome via two-dimensional gel
electrophoresis. The replication fork pause at the HML ARS
cluster was independent of cis- and
trans-acting mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing at HML. Deletion of the HML ARS
cluster led to loss of the pause site. Insertion of a single,
heterologous ARS (ARS305) in place of the HML
ARS cluster reconstituted the pause site, as did multiple copies of DNA
elements (A and B1) that bind ORC. The orc2-1 mutation,
known to alter replication timing at origins, did not detectably affect
the pause but activated the silent origin at the HML ARS
cluster in a minority of cells. Delaying the time of fork arrival at
HML led to the elimination of the pause sites at the
HML ARS cluster and at the copy of ARS305
inserted in place of the cluster. Loss of the pause sites was
accompanied by activation of the silent origins in the majority of
cells. Thus, replication fork movement near HML pauses at a
silent origin which is competent for replication initiation but kept
silent through Orc2p, a component of the replication initiator.
Possible functions for replication fork pause sites in checkpoints,
S-phase regulation, mating-type switching, and transcriptionally silent
heterochromatin are discussed.
In the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, chromosomal replicators can be isolated as
autonomously replicating sequences (ARSs). ARS elements allow
high-frequency transformation of yeast cells (32, 62) and
serve as replication origins in plasmids (9, 30). ARS
function in yeast requires important modular sequences. A highly
conserved region, called the ARS consensus sequences (ACS), is the core
of a larger functional sequence called the A element (29,
41). The A element is essential, and point mutations in the ACS
can abolish ARS activity (28, 44, 66). The B domain,
located 3' to the T-rich strand of the ACS, is also essential for ARS
function and contains multiple functionally important modules called B
elements (28, 36, 41, 49, 64). One of these, B2, contains
a DNA-unwinding element (DUE) that is thought to facilitate entry of
the replication machinery into the double helix at the origin (5,
36). The origin recognition complex (ORC) binds the A and B1
elements and interacts with other replication proteins to render an
origin competent for initiation (3, 50, 56; reviewed in
reference 31).
While all chromosomal replicators identified in yeast coincide with an
ARS element, not all ARS elements serve as active chromosomal origins
(16, 46, 67). ARS elements which are not associated with
an active chromosomal origin are called silent origins. Some of the
silent origins function as transcriptional silencers (7), although active origins can also serve as transcriptional silencers (52, 53). ORC binds to ARS elements that are silent
origins and contributes to transcriptional silencing (2, 21,
22). The function of silent origins which are not
transcriptional silencers is not known, and the reason why these silent
origins are present in single-cell organisms such as budding yeast is
not clear. In multicellular organisms such as Drosophila
melanogaster, silencing of a large number of active origins on
chromosomes is postulated to be one of the mechanisms to prolong the S
phase and reduce the cell growth rate during development and
differentiation (6, 60). Recently, evidence was reported
that silent origins in yeast can be activated at their native
chromosomal locations under special circumstances (59,
67).
Duplication of DNA in eukaryotic chromosomes initiates at multiple
origins with different origins activated at different times in S phase.
In general, replication forks derived from chromosomal origins move
bidirectionally away from the origins, and replication terminates when
forks from different origins collide with each other and when forks
reach both ends of the chromosomes. At certain loci, replication forks
are arrested or temporarily stalled prior to termination (10, 14,
15, 23, 39). Temporary slowdown or arrest of a replication fork
in the chromosome results in the accumulation of replication
intermediates at a particular chromosomal location and can be detected
as a heavy hybridization signal along the arc of replication fork
intermediates after two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis
(10). In yeast chromosomes, replication fork barriers have
been identified in the ribosomal gene cluster, and replication fork
pause sites have been reported at the centromeres and at tRNA genes
(10, 14, 23). Protein-DNA interactions are thought to be
important in mediating some replication fork pauses (23,
39). Also, active transcription has been shown to pause
replication fork movement (14). One function of pause sites and fork barriers is to block the replication forks from entering
into actively transcribed genes (10, 14). Replication fork
pause sites occur in chromosomes from a variety of eukaryotes and
prokaryotes (reviewed in reference 54). However, aside
from the role of fork pause sites at actively transcribed genes, little is known about their biological functions in eukaryotic
chromosomes. In addition, more remains to be learned about the nature
of the DNA elements and trans-acting factors that determine
replication fork pausing.
Here we report that replication fork pause sites are present near
HML, a transcriptionally silent mating-type locus in budding yeast. Fork pause sites map to silent origins of replication including the HML ARS cluster (ARS302-ARS303-ARS320) and
ARS301. Although two of theses ARS elements are
transcriptional silencers, we found that fork pausing is independent of
mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing at HML.
Replication fork pausing is tightly linked to origin silencing.
HML ARS elements at silent origins are required for fork
pausing. A heterologous ARS element inserted in place of the
HML ARS cluster becomes a silent origin and reconstitutes the replication fork pause site. Multiple copies of DNA elements that
bind ORC also reconstitute the pause site. The orc2-1
mutation, known to affect replication timing, did not detectably affect the pause signal but activated the silent origin at the HML
ARS cluster in a subpopulation of cells. Delaying the fork arrival at
HML resulted in the disappearance of the pause and the
activation of associated silent origins in the majority of cells. Our
results show that replication fork movement near HML pauses
at a silent origin which is competent for replication initiation but
kept silent through Orc2p, a component of the replication initiator. Possible functions of replication fork pause sites in checkpoint signaling, S-phase regulation, and mating-type switching and in transcriptionally silent heterochromatin are discussed.
Reagents.
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DNA Replication Forks Pause at Silent Origins
near the HML Locus in Budding Yeast
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-32P]dATP was purchased from Amersham
International. BND-cellulose for replication intermediate enrichment
was obtained from Sigma Chemical Company. 5-Fluoro-orotic acid
was from Toronto Research Chemicals Inc. Media reagents were from Difco
Laboratories and American Biorganics, Inc.
was used for plasmid transformation and
propagation. The plasmids used in yeast integration are all YIP5
derivatives that carry an ampicillin resistance gene and a bacterial
replication origin for propagation and selection in E. coli.
They also contain a URA3 gene used for selection and counterselection during the two-step method for the integration of
mutations into yeast chromosome III.
{36}, termed mt305] in place of the HML
ARS302-ARS303-ARS320), YWY12 (YWY1 with five copies of a 299-bp
mutated ARS305 derivative [mt305] in place of the
HML ARS302-ARS303-ARS320); DMY1 (HML
MATa HMRa ura3-52
leu2-3,112 ade2-1 lys1-1 his5-2 can1-100); DMY2 (DMY1
sir3::LEU2); DMY94 (DMY1
E+::URA3 1 D242); DMY94
(DMY1 E
D79-113::URA3 I D242) (DMY1 and
its derivatives were obtained from James Broach, Princeton University)
(40); JRY4556 (MATa ade2-1
his3-11,15 leu2-3,112 trp1-1 ura3-1 can1-100 orc5-1,3) (obtained
from Jasper Rine, University of California, Berkeley) (22); and W303-1A (MATa ade2-1 ura3-1
his3-11 trp1-1 leu2-3 can1-100), and its derivative W303-1A
orc2-1 (obtained from Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory (35).
Genomic DNA isolation for 2D gels. Most of the yeast strains were grown at 30°C. In the case of the orc2-1 strain and the isogenic W303-1A strain, cultures were grown overnight at 23°C and then shifted to either 30 or 37°C for 2 h. Cells were grown to 1.3 × 107 1.5 × 107 cells/ml, and genomic DNA was isolated by CsCl gradient centrifugation followed by restriction endonuclease digestion. Completely digested DNA samples were precipitated, resuspended in Tris-EDTA (pH 7.5) and combined with BND-cellulose to enrich for replication intermediates. Bound DNA was eluted with 1.8% caffeine (30). The caffeine wash samples were precipitated and resuspended in small volume of Tris-EDTA and were analyzed by 2D gel electrophoresis as described previously (9), with minor modifications. First-dimension electrophoresis was carried out in 0.4% agarose gel in 1× Tris-acetate-EDTA buffer containing 0.1 µg of ethidium bromide per ml for 18 to 20 h at 1 V/cm. First-dimension sample lanes were cut from the gel and embedded into 1% agarose gel, and the second dimension was carried out at 5 V/cm for 8 to 10 h 4°C in 1× Tris-borate-EDTA buffer containing 0.5 µg of ethidium bromide per ml. The second-dimension gels were Southern blotted to a nylon membrane (Gene Screen Plus; DuPont) using a pressure blotter (Stratagene) and hybridized to 32P-labeled DNA probes (28). The radioactive signals were detected and analyzed with a PhosphorImager (Molecular Dynamics STORM).
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The silent mating-type locus, HML, is located near the
left end of chromosome III and is flanked by a number of ARS elements which are silent as chromosomal replication origins (Fig.
1). Only one of the ARS elements,
ARS305, is associated with an active replication origin,
ORI305, in the left 40 kb of the chromosome. Since there are no other
active origins in that region, a replication fork that originates at
ORI305 and moves leftward is responsible for duplicating the entire
left 40 kb of chromosome III, including the silent origins at the
HML ARS cluster (ARS302-ARS303-ARS320) and at
ARS301 (Fig. 1).
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Replication forks pause near the HML locus.
When
replication intermediates at the HML ARS cluster are
analyzed by 2D gel electrophoresis, a simple Y arc indicative of passive replication is detected (Fig. 2A and
2B). No bubble arc is detected,
consistent with a normally silent origin at the HML ARS
cluster. In addition to the simple Y arc, a heavy hybridization signal
is obvious at the peak of the Y arc (Fig. 2B). The heavy hybridization
signal indicates the accumulation of replication forks, i.e., a fork
pause site. The major fork pause signal corresponds to replication
intermediates that accumulated at the HML ARS cluster region, since the peak of the Y arc represents the center of the analyzed EcoRI/FspI restriction fragment and the
HML ARS cluster is centrally located as shown in the map
(Fig. 2B). In addition to the major pause site at the peak, two minor
fork pause sites were also detected on the late Y arc, which map within
the HML cassette of the analyzed
EcoRI/FspI restriction fragment (Fig. 2B). The
three-spot pattern has been detected in several different yeast strains
at the HML ARS cluster region (see below). Since the
HML ARS cluster appears to correspond to the major fork
accumulation site seen during 2D gel analysis, it was of interest to
determine whether the major pause is mediated by those ARS elements
that are silent as chromosomal replication origins.
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The major replication fork pause site colocalizes with the HML ARS cluster. To determine whether the major pause site observed on the 2D gel is associated with the HML ARS cluster, we first changed the position of the HML ARS cluster relative to the ends of the analyzed genomic fragments. If the major pause site is associated with the HML ARS cluster, then changing the position of the HML ARS cluster would shift the location of the major pause site on the Y arc correspondingly.
The EcoRI/FspI genomic fragment that centers the position of the HML ARS cluster results in detection of the major pause site at the peak of the Y arc (Fig. 2B). Digestion by EcoRI alone yields a genomic fragment that shifts the HML ARS cluster off center to the right. Analysis of the EcoRI-digested HML genomic fragment on the 2D gel shows that the major pause site is indeed shifted toward the right side of the Y arc within the early Y-arc portion. Additionally, the extent of the major pause signal shift is consistent with the off-center location of the HML ARS cluster on the fragment (Fig. 2C). An EcoRI/FspI genomic fragment from a mutant yeast strain with a portion of the HML locus deleted was also analyzed. The deletion results in the shift of the HML ARS cluster off center to the left of the EcoRI/FspI fragment. Two-dimensional gel analysis of the fragment in the deleted strain revealed that the major pause was shifted off center to the left, within late Y-arc region (Fig. 2D). This pause signal in the late Y-arc region returned to the peak of the Y arc when the same strain was analyzed by EcoRI digestion, which places the HML ARS cluster back to the center of the genomic fragment (Fig. 2E). Thus, the positions of the HML ARS cluster on the analyzed restriction fragments map with the positions of the major pause site on the Y arc. These results suggest that the major replication fork pause site colocalizes with the HML ARS cluster region.ARS301 near the HML cassette is associated
with a replication fork pause site.
In addition to the
HML ARS cluster, another ARS element,
ARS301, located within the E silencer near HML,
is also inactive as a chromosomal origin. Despite the absence of
detectable origin inactivity, ARS301 forms a prereplication
complex and is competent for replication initiation in the chromosome
under normal growth conditions (58, 67). When an
XhoI genomic fragment containing ARS301
is analyzed on a 2D gel, a strong replication fork pause signal is
detected. The position of ARS301 on the restriction fragment is consistent with the off-center location of the pause signal on the 2D gel (Fig. 3A). Moreover,
when we examined the BamHI/FspI genomic
fragment that shifted ARS301 off center to the right, we
found the fork pause site to be shifted accordingly to the right of the
peak and into the early Y-arc region, suggesting that the replication
fork pause is associated with the ARS301 region (Fig.
3B). The results for ARS301, along with those for the
HML ARS cluster, suggest that in general, replication forks pause at regions containing ARS elements that are silent origins near
the HML locus of chromosome III.
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Deletion of the HML ARS cluster eliminates the major
replication fork pause site.
Restriction fragment shift
experiments suggested that the major pause site colocalizes with the
HML ARS cluster region. To determine if the ARS elements are
important for the pause, we examined whether deletion of those ARSs
could eliminate the major pause signal. To this end, we constructed a
yeast strain in which all three ARSs in the HML ARS cluster
were deleted. Analysis of the EcoRI/FspI fragment
of the mutant strain by 2D gel electrophoresis shows that the major
pause signal seen in the wild-type strain at the peak of the Y arc is
absent. The mutant strain (Fig. 4B) lacks
the heavy hybridization signal seen at the peak of the Y arc in the
parental strain (Fig. 4A). Analysis of a
BamHI/FspI fragment of the HML locus
shows that the heavy accumulation of replication intermediates at the
peak of the Y arc in the parental strain (Fig. 4C) is again absent in
the mutant (Fig. 4D). Our deletion results indicate that the region
encompassing the HML ARS cluster is required for mediating
the replication fork pause near the HML locus.
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Replacement of the HML ARS cluster with a heterologous
ARS element recapitulates the major pause site.
The mapping and
deletion experiments described above suggested that ARS elements near
the HML locus could be responsible for the replication fork
pause. Different ARS elements share structural similarities. The ACS,
which is essential for ORC binding, is present in all ARSs isolated.
The less conserved B1 element, which contributes to ORC binding, is
also present in several ARS elements analyzed in detail (29, 36,
41, 49, 64). If the ARS elements themselves are important for
the observed replication fork pause near the HML locus, a
heterologous ARS element might be able to regenerate the fork pause. To
test this possibility, we replaced the HML ARS cluster with
ARS305. There is no sequence similarity between the deleted
fragment containing HML ARS cluster and the heterologous
ARS305 fragment other than the ACS. ARS305 was
derived from a chromosomal origin, ORI305. The fragment of ARS305 used to replace the HML ARS cluster is
able to function as chromosomal origin when inserted at a different
location in chromosome III (R. Y. Huang, M. J. Eddy, and D. Kowalski, unpublished data). However, when inserted at the
HML region, ARS305 is a silent origin, as
indicated by a complete Y arc and the absence of a bubble arc on
the 2D gel (Fig. 5B). Moreover, the major
pause site which is absent in the mutant strain with the HML
ARS cluster deleted (Fig. 5A) was reconstituted in the strain with
ARS305 inserted (Fig. 5B). Two minor pause sites
difficult to detect in the strain deleted for the HML ARS
cluster are seen on the late Y arc in the strain with ARS305
inserted. The above experiment indicates that a heterologous ARS
element from an active chromosomal replication origin is silenced when
inserted near the HML locus and can recapitulate the major
pause site. Additionally, the deleted sequence encompassing the
HML ARS cluster is not essential for origin silencing or
fork pausing at the heterologous ARS element inserted near
HML.
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A and B1 elements which bind ORC contribute to the generation of
the pause signal.
Sequences important for ARS function have been
demonstrated to be necessary for full replication origin activity
in the chromosome. In the case of ARS305, the A
element is essential for plasmid ARS activity and for chromosomal
origin function, and the B1 element contributes to replication
efficiency (28, 29). These elements from ARS305
are functionally exchangeable with the corresponding elements in
ARS1 (36). The A element is the primary binding site for ORC and the B1 element also contributes to ORC binding (3, 50, 56). Since the copy of the ARS305 that
replaced the HML ARS cluster remained silent at
HML and reconstituted the pause, we asked whether sequences
essential for ARS305 origin activity are important for the
generation of replication fork pause. To test this possibility, we
replaced the HML ARS cluster with a mutated
ARS305 derivative. The derivative contains the wild-type A
and B1 elements of ARS305 with the 3' sequences, including the B4 module and DUE, replaced by a randomly generated sequence that
greatly weakens ARS function (36). The HML
locus of the resulting mutant strain was analyzed for a replication
fork pause by 2D gel electrophoresis. As shown in Fig.
6A, replacement of the HML ARS
cluster with the mutated ARS305 derivative is unable to
reconstitute the major pause site. However, when five copies of the
mutated ARS305 derivative are concatenated and inserted in
place of the HML ARS cluster, the major pause site is
recapitulated. When the major pause site is restored, the
minor pause signals on the late Y arc also become clearer (Fig.
6B). Therefore, five concatenated copies of the mutated
ARS305 derivative containing five copies of the A and B1
elements are able to reconstitute the major pause signal. The
capability of multiple copies of the A and B1 elements to stall the
fork movement suggests that these ORC-binding elements contribute to
the generation of replication fork pause at the HML locus.
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Replication fork pause site at the HML ARS cluster is independent of mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing at HML. Detection of the replication fork pause sites at the transcriptionally silent HML locus raises the possibility that regulation of transcriptional silencing may be involved in stalling the fork progression. Fork pauses at HML are associated with ARS elements required for transcriptional silencing. ARS301 and ARS302 comprise the E and I transcriptional silencers, respectively. Furthermore, trans-acting factors such as ORC have dual roles in both replication and silencing and bind to these ARS elements. The more compact heterochromatin-like structure at HML that is important for transcriptional silencing may also contribute to the slowdown of fork migration. Despite the existence of common functional elements between transcriptional silencers and DNA replication origins such as ARSs and ORC, silencing of replication origin activity at HML has been shown to be independent of transcriptional silencing (67). However, whether generation of a replication fork pause at HML is linked to the transcriptional silencing is not known.
To test the involvement of transcriptional silencing in regulating the fork pauses at HML, we examined certain cis- and trans-acting mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing for their effects on the replication fork pause at the HML ARS cluster. Deletions that removed the cis-acting silencer elements E and I were tested. These elements bind several proteins that contribute to transcriptional silencing, including ORC, Rap1p, and Abf1p, and also contribute to establishing a heterochromatin-like structure (21, 37, 45). Deletion of both E and I elements abrogates transcriptional silencing at HML (40). We examined an ORC mutant, orc5-1,3, which is defective in transcriptional silencing but competent for initiation of DNA replication (22). We also looked at the disruption of the SIR3 gene, sir3::LEU2, that abrogates silencing of HML transcription (40). As seen in Fig. 7, the major fork pause at the HML ARS cluster is apparent in all cases, and the three-spot pattern (one major and two minor) similar to those in YPH98 derivatives is present in all of the above strains. The results indicate that replication fork pausing near the HML ARS cluster is independent of cis- and trans-acting mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing at HML.
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, silent;
+, active). A HindIII/BamHI fragment from was
used as a probe in the hybridization. Arrowheads denote a replication
pause signal. (A) DMY1, the parental strain; (B) DMY2, a strain with a
mutation disrupting the SIR3 gene (shown as
sir3::LEU2); (C) DMY94, a strain with
the I silencer deleted (Deletion of ORI305 and ORI306 leads to loss of the replication fork pause signal and activation of silent origins at HML. Forks that pause at HML ARS305 are derived from active origins present only on one side of the HML locus. The closest active origins, ORI305 and ORI306, are located 25 and 59 kb away from HML (13, 28, 72). These are two of the earliest firing origins in chromosome III (51). ORI305 and ORI306 are presumed to supply most, if not all, of the forks that pause at HML. If this is so, deletion of ORI305 and ORI306 would move the source of the replication forks to ORI307, which is 93 kb away (13), and significantly delay the fork arrival at the HML locus. If this hypothesis is true, deletion of ORI305 and ORI306 would be expected to diminish fork pause signal at the HML locus.
To test this hypothesis, we examined fork pausing at ARS305 inserted in place of the HML ARS cluster after the deletion of active distal origins, ORI305 and ORI306. The results showed that the major fork pause, previously identified by a heavy spot at the peak of the Y arc at ARS305 (Fig. 8A), is not present after deletion of ORI305 and ORI306 (Fig. 8B). Instead, the copy of ARS305 near the HML region was no longer silenced and showed origin activity at a high level. Origin activation is indicated by the appearance of a distinct high-rising arc, termed a bubble arc. A high level of origin activity is reflected by the high ratio of bubble arc signal to the early Y-arc signal. Activation of ARS305 inserted near HML is about 75% as efficient as in its native ORI305 location (29), as estimated from the bubble arc/early Y-arc ratio. Thus, loss of the pause signal is accompanied by activation of the silent origin in most of cells. Origin activation was also seen at the natural silent origin in the HML ARS cluster when ORI305 and ORI306 were deleted (67). Activation of the silent origin is accompanied by the loss of the major fork pause (compare Fig. 8C and D). ARS elements in the HML ARS cluster function inefficiently in plasmids and in the chromosome (67). Thus, origin activation does not occur in every cell, and a low ratio of bubble arc to early Y-arc signals is seen (Fig. 8D). Although a complete Y arc indicative of passive replication is seen in some cells, a pause signal at the peak of the Y arc is not apparent (Fig. 8D). Our results indicate that deletion of the adjacent early-firing origins from the chromosome reduces the pause signal, suggesting that fork arrival at HML from the adjacent early-firing origins was delayed. Furthermore, loss of the pause signal at the silent origins is accompanied by the activation of the silent origins in the chromosome.
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ORC2 maintains origin silencing at a replication fork pause site. All ARS elements and chromosomal origins tested require ORC for replication function. The observations that the heterologous ARS305 origin is silenced at HML and can recapitulate the pause, and that DNA elements A-B1 which bind ORC contribute to the pause, suggest that ORC may play a role in fork pausing. Orc2p, one of the six subunits of ORC, is known to regulate both origin activity and the time at which origins fire in S phase (21, 35, 48, 61). The orc2-1 mutation can have either a positive or a negative effect on activity, depending upon the specific origin, and can advance the activation time of origins that fire late in S phase (61). The silent origin at the HML ARS cluster fires late in S phase when activated by deletion of adjacent origins (M. Vujcic, M. J. Eddy, and D. Kowalski, unpublished data). ORC is known to bind to ARS elements that are silent origins in the chromosome (2). We examined the possible role of ORC in replication fork pausing at the silent origin in the HML ARS cluster using the temperature-sensitive orc2-1 mutant.
We performed 2D gel electrophoresis of replication intermediates on genomic DNA isolated from cultures of orc2-1 and an isogenic wild-type strain grown at 23, 30, and 37°C. Replication intermediates were probed for the silent origin at the HML ARS cluster. The orc2-1 mutation had no detectable effect on fork pausing at the silent origin at all temperatures tested (Fig. 9B to D). Additionally, dark exposures of the radioactive signals reveal that the silent origin at the HML ARS cluster remains silent in the wild-type strain (Fig. 9E) and in the orc2-1 mutant at 23°C (Fig. 9F). The elevated temperatures had no effect on the silent origins in the wild-type strain (data not shown). However, the silent origins were activated in the temperature-sensitive orc2-1 mutant at 30 and 37°C, as indicated by the appearance of a bubble arc (Fig. 9G and H). The low ratio of the bubble arc to the early Y arc indicates that the silent origin becomes active in a subpopulation of cells. A corresponding low-level reduction in the pause signal contributed by the majority of cells would be difficult to detect. The results indicate that ORC2 plays a role in maintaining origin silencing at the replication fork pause site.
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Yeast ARS elements are known to function as replication origins, and in exceptional cases, they function as transcriptional silencers. We have discovered that ARS elements can also serve as replication fork pause sites in an S. cerevisiae chromosome. Natural fork pause sites were detected at ARS elements on both sides of a transcriptionally silent mating locus, HML. The pause sites occur at the HML ARS cluster on the centromeric side of HML and at ARS301 on the telomeric side. Since the HML locus is transcriptionally silent, fork pauses at this locus cannot be caused by head-on collisions of transcription and replication machinery seen at other loci in yeast chromosomes (14). Fork pause sites are also known to occur at yeast centromeres, and a fork barrier occurs in the ribosomal DNA locus outside the replication origin (10, 23). Given our findings that deletion of the HML ARS cluster eliminates the pause signal and that substitution of the HML ARS cluster with the heterologous ARS305 regenerates the pause, we conclude that ARS elements are responsible for pausing replication fork movement in the chromosome.
ARS elements that pause replication fork movement near HML are silent as chromosomal replication origins. Both the HML ARS cluster and ARS301 are known to be silent origins (16, 67). As shown here, ARS305 derived from the active chromosomal origin, ORI305, is silenced when inserted at the HML locus. Instead of functioning as a replication origin, the ARS305 insert functions as a fork pause site at HML. Fork pausing at the ARS305 insert is independent of the HML ARS cluster, which was deleted in this strain. Deletion of two distal active origins, ORI305 and ORI306, results in the loss of the fork pause and the activation of the ARS305 insert as a chromosomal origin at HML. Activation of silent origins at the native HML ARS cluster and at the native ARS301 location was also seen when the distal active origins were deleted (67). Here we found that activation of the silent origin at the HML ARS cluster results in loss of the replication fork pause. The establishment of both origin silencing and fork pausing at a copy of ARS305 inserted near HML, together with the loss of fork pausing seen when the silent origins are activated, indicates that origin silencing is tightly linked to replication fork pausing. The capacity of the silent origins at the pause sites to become active replication origins demonstrates that the silent origins are competent for replication initiation in the chromosome.
ARS elements are known to bind ORC, which is required for replication origin activity in budding yeast (3, 50, 56). ORC also functions in transcriptional silencing at HM loci, and at HML, ORC binds the silencer elements ARS301 and ARS302 (2, 21, 40). A cell cycle-dependent alternation between an ORC-dependent postreplicative state and a Cdc6p-dependent prereplicative state occurs at ARS301 (58). These observations, together with the direct demonstration of origin activation at ARS301 after deletion of adjacent origins (67), suggest that ORC and associated replication proteins are responsible for the initiation competency of silent origins. As shown here, origin silencing and fork pausing near HML are tightly linked. Thus, the fork pause may consist of a complex of ARS DNA with proteins, such as ORC and associated replication proteins, that confer initiation competence to replication origins.
The A and B1 elements of ARS305 interact with ORC (34). The A element is essential for initiation competence in the chromosome and the B1 element is important (28, 29). Our finding that multiple copies of A and B1 elements recapitulate the major fork pause site indicates that DNA elements known to interact with ORC contribute to the replication fork pause. One copy of the A and B1 elements is not sufficient to generate the pause signal at the HML locus, while one copy of ARS305 is sufficient. In addition to A and B1 elements, ARS305 contains a DUE and a B4 element which are functionally important (36). Besides ORC binding, initiation competence at an origin requires Cdc6p and the MCM2-7 complex, a DNA helicase (26, 73). The ARS1 association with Mcm2p, but not with ORC, is diminished by disruption of the B2 element (73), which contains a DUE (36). Mutations of the DUE and the B4 element in the ARS305 derivative tested likely interfere with the unwinding events important for initiation. This mutation, like the B2/DUE mutation in ARS1 (73), may weaken the stable association of the MCM2-7 in the complex with ARS. This could explain why one copy of A-B1 alone is insufficient to generate a pause signal, while one copy of A-B1 within the context of a functional ARS element, ARS305, is sufficient. Interestingly, a mutation in another initiation protein, Mcm10p (26), can have the opposite effect at an active replication origin. The mcm10 mutation appears to stabilize the association of initiation proteins with the ARS and leads to origin inactivation and replication fork pausing (42).
ORC2 plays a regulatory role in initiation and may have either positive or negative effects on active replication origins, depending upon the specific origin (61). The observation that the orc2-1 mutation activates the silent origin at the HML ARS cluster indicates a role for wild-type ORC2 in the maintenance of origin silencing at the replication fork pause site. ORC2 is known to regulate replication timing at origins. The orc2-1 mutation advances the time that certain late-activated origins fire in S phase (61). Interestingly, the silent origins initiate replication late in S phase when activated by deleting adjacent early-firing origins (Vujcic et al., unpublished). The late activation time likely accounts for their passive replication by a fork from an adjacent early-firing origin (ORI305 and ORI306). A sufficient advance in the origin activation time at the HML ARS cluster in a subpopulation of cells could account for the activation of the silent origin seen in the orc2-1 mutant. The orc2-1 mutant could also affect origin silencing by delaying replication timing at adjacent active origins or reducing their activity. Replication timing experiments on the orc2-1 mutant will be required to fully understand the mechanism by which ORC2 affects origin silencing at the fork pause site. The simplest interpretation of all of our results is that a late-programmed initiation complex at the silent origin is responsible for pausing a replication fork that arrives relatively early in S phase. Consistent with this, the silent origin is activated and the natural pause signal is lost when fork arrival is delayed until later in S phase by deleting adjacent, early-firing origins. Also consistent is the observation that an active origin is silenced in the late-replicating context of HML and a pause site is created.
RAD53 and MEC1, which encode protein kinases that function in S-phase checkpoints, also function to regulate replication timing at origins. In the presence of DNA damage or replication stress, these checkpoint kinases suppress the firing of certain late-activated origins (57, 61). The RAD53 pathway attenuates the activity of the Cdc7p-Dbf4p kinase and, at late-activated origins, inhibits recruitment of the single-strand binding protein RPA into the initiation complex (63, 69). The silent origins at the pause sites are programmed to activate late in S phase (Vujcic et al., unpublished). Recently we found that a rad53 mutation activates silent origins at the HML ARS cluster and at ARS301 in the presence of DNA damage, while a mec1 mutation activates only ARS301 (68). Thus, these checkpoint kinase mutations activate silent origins at the two major pause sites, the HML ARS cluster and ARS301. The available evidence suggests that the wild-type checkpoint kinases suppress activation of a late-programmed initiation complex at silent origins after DNA damage.
The rad53 and mec1 mutations show no detectable activation at the silent origins in the absence of DNA damage, unlike the orc2-1 mutation studied here. In the presence of DNA damage, the natural pause sites at the silent origins near HML become stronger. Additionally, a novel pause site is created at an active replication origin, and origin activity is inhibited (68). Thus, fork pause sites at replication origins appear to be inducible and may function to arrest replication fork progression and inhibit origin activation during the DNA damage response. In this way, replication fork pause sites at origins could function to coordinate initiation and elongation of replication in the chromosome during the S-phase checkpoint induced by DNA damage.
Another possible function of natural pause sites is in signaling during cell cycle regulation in the absence of DNA damage or replication stress such as nucleotide deprivation. In bacteria, replication fork progression through DNA is kept under surveillance to avoid inactivation of stalled forks and subsequent mutations (54). A similar process may exist in yeast (12). The encounter of a replication fork with a natural pause site may trigger a checkpoint signal in an unperturbed S phase. The signal could convey to cell cycle regulators that replication of the chromosome is incomplete and thereby delay the exit from S phase. Thus, natural pause sites in the chromosome could serve to monitor replication fork progression and link it to S-phase progression in the cell cycle.
We found that the occurrence of the replication fork pause in the HML ARS cluster is independent of cis- and trans-acting mutations that abrogate transcriptional silencing. Also, the occurrence of the pause site in the HML ARS cluster does not require ARS302, the I transcriptional silencer, which was deleted in two strains examined. The I silencer establishes a boundary between active and inactive chromatin (4), and so this boundary alone is not responsible for the fork pause. Remaining in the HML ARS cluster in these deletion mutants are ARS303 and ARS320, silent origins which are not essential for transcriptional silencing in a plasmid but may contribute to the potency of transcriptional silencing in the chromosome (40). Our results suggest that replication fork pausing could be a primary function of ARS303 and ARS320. The replication fork from ORI305 encounters these ARS elements prior to progressing into HML (Fig. 1). HML is known to be duplicated late in S phase, and the average rate of replication fork movement in the HML region (1.3 kb/min) is much lower than at earlier replicated regions of the chromosome (3.6 kb/min) (51). The molecular mechanism for the rate reduction is unknown. One hypothesis is that fork movement is generally slowed by the heterochromatin structure at HML, although there is no direct evidence for this possibility. Alternatively, fork movement could be slowed only at specific pause sites. The major pause sites that we discovered at the HML ARS cluster and at ARS301 likely contribute to, or possibly determine, the reduced rate of replication fork movement in the HML region.
Another possible function of pause sites at initiation-competent silent
origins is to facilitate inheritance of a late-replicating heterochromatin structure and transcriptional silencing.
Transcriptional silencing at HM loci requires passage
through S phase and ORC function (21, 22, 43). The
late-replicating heterochromatin structure must be faithfully
duplicated to maintain transcriptional silencing. At
HML, the heterochromatin structure includes ORC, associated silent information regulator and other specific proteins, a
protected HO endonuclease cleavage site, an exposed transcription promoter region for 1 and 2 coding regions, phased nucleosomes, and specifically hypoacetylated histones (4, 8, 70;
reviewed in reference 24). Replication fork proteins, such
as PCNA, components of the replication initiation complex in addition
to ORC, such as Cdc7p, and chromatin assembly factors also contribute
to heterochromatin-mediated transcriptional silencing (18, 20,
71). HML transcriptional silencers are substantially
more potent in their native context than in other chromosome locations
or in a plasmid (24, 40). In the chromosome, the
replication fork from the early-firing ORI305 arrives at the
HML ARS cluster relatively early in S phase (51). The pause site at the HML ARS cluster
could function to delay the duplication of the HML locus
until later in S phase when transcription factors that bind to active,
early-replicated genes are less abundant. Alternatively, the delay in
duplication could be linked to a time in late S phase when factors
required for heterochromatin and transcriptional repression are
available or modified. The replication fork pause site at the
HML ARS cluster could also function to recruit or localize
such factors to HML. The silent origin at the fork pause
site is programmed to activate replication late in S phase (Vujcic et
al., unpublished). It is interesting in this regard that a histone
deacetylase which contributes to formation of a transcriptionally
repressive chromatin structure is targeted to replication foci only
during late S phase in human cells (55).
Recently, a role for a replication fork pause site in imprinting and cell type switching in Schizosaccaromyces pombe was identified. The pause site occurs at the imprinting site at the mat1 locus and involves swi1p and swi3p (11). The replication fork pause is thought to facilitate placement of an RNA primer at a specific position by lagging-strand DNA replication. Leading-strand replication in a cell that inherits the imprint is thought to result in a DNA break that initiates mat1 switching. In S. cerevisiae, a different mechanism for switching mating type is used (24). The HO endonuclease induces a DNA break at the MAT locus in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, and the mating-type switch occurs before MAT replicates. If the pause sites flanking HML function in mating-type switching in S. cerevisiae, they must employ a mechanism distinct from that used in S. pombe.
Strong parallels exist between budding yeast and D. melanogaster in terms of the involvement of ORC and other replication proteins in late-replicating heterochromatin structures and gene silencing. Sequence-specific DNA binding by D. melanogaster ORC (DmORC) regulates initiation of replication, and a large number of early embryonic replication origins are silent in differentiated cells (1, 6, 60). DmOrc2p is enriched in heterochromatin and mutations in the gene affect replication timing, as is the case in budding yeast (39, 47, 61). DmORC localizes the non-DNA binding protein HP-1 into heterochromatin likely through DmOrc1p, similar to the role of yeast Orc1p in recruiting Sir1p (27, 65; reviewed in reference 19). DmORC2 can complement the transcriptional silencing defect of orc2-1 in budding yeast (17). Mutations in DmORC2 and in the gene encoding the replication fork protein DmPCNA suppress heterochromatin-mediated gene silencing in Drosophila (25, 47), as do mutations in homologous genes in budding yeast. Finally, the specific pattern of histone hypoacetylation is identical in heterochromatin in Drosophila and budding yeast (8). Fork pause sites have been proposed to occur late in S phase in heterochromatic satellite sequences in diploid cells and to be responsible for DNA truncation in the shortened S phase of polytene cells (33). The remarkable similarities described above suggest that replication fork pause sites at initiation-competent silent origins in budding yeast may also occur in late-replicating heterochromatin in Drosophila as well as in other metazoans.
Our discovery of replication fork pause sites at initiation-competent silent origins in budding yeast opens the possibility of identifying them in other species and determining their function(s) within chromosomes. Further studies of replication pause sites in yeast will be necessary to test their possible roles in checkpoints, S-phase regulation, and mating-type switching and in transcriptionally silent heterochromatin.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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We thank James Broach, Phil Hieter, Carol Newlon, Jasper Rine, and Bruce Stillman for yeast strains and plasmids. Thanks go to Martha Eddy for technical assistance and to Ruea Huang and John Yates for helpful comments on the manuscript.
This work was supported in part by shared resources of Roswell Park Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA16056) and by grant GM-30614 from the National Institutes of Health.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263. Phone: (716) 845-4462. Fax: (716) 845-5906. E-mail: David.Kowalski{at}RoswellPark.org.
Present address: Department of Structural Biology, Hauptman
Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, NY 14203.
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