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Review
. 1999 Nov;65(5):1230-7.
doi: 10.1086/302630.

Yeast as a model for human mtDNA replication

G S Shadel  1
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Yeast as a model for human mtDNA replication

G S Shadel. Am J Hum Genet. 1999 Nov.
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A, Human mtDNA, a 16.5-kb double-stranded circular molecule, with the two DNA strands designated as H or L strands, on the basis of their relative buoyant densities in denaturing cesium-chloride gradients. OH is located immediately downstream of the LSP, which serves a dual role in gene expression and mtDNA replication. OL is physically separated from OH on the molecule. The HSP, LSP, and OH are all located in the main regulatory locus on the molecule, called the “D-loop region.” The D-loop itself (bulge at top of molecule) results from a terminated H-strand replication event (the arrested nascent H-strand is indicated by the large arrow; for details, see the text). B, Proposed early events in the initiation of mtDNA replication at human OH (top) and at S. cerevisiae ori/rep sequences (bottom). At human OH, transcription initiation at the LSP (bent arrow) by human mtRNA polymerase (oval) begins the process. As h-mtRNA polymerase traverses CSB III, CSB II, and CSB I (open boxes), a complex RNA/DNA hybrid structure is formed between the RNA transcript (thicker line) and the template L-strand (thinner line); RNA-DNA base pairs are indicated (vertical hatch marks). This RNA/DNA hybrid is the putative in vivo substrate for mtRNA-processing enzymes, such as RNase MRP (diamond), which cleave the hybridized transcript at specific sites to form RNA primers for initiation of H-strand replication. A similar mechanism has been proposed for S. cerevisiae mtRNA polymerase–driven initiation of leading-strand mtDNA synthesis at yeast ori/rep sequences (bottom [diagrammed in a manner identical to that described for OH]). Potentially important differences noted at the yeast mtDNA origins include the greater proximity of the ori/rep promoter (bent arrow) to the CSB II-like sequence and an RNA/DNA hybrid that is less complex than that at human OH.
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