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Título: | The conjugative relaxase TrwC promotes integration of foreign DNA in the human genome |
Autor: | González-Prieto, Coral CSIC; Gabriel, Richard; Dehio, Christoph; Schmidt, Manfred; Llosa, Matxalen CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2017 | Editor: | American Society for Microbiology | Citación: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology 83(12): e00207-e00217 (2017) | Resumen: | Bacterial conjugation is a mechanism of horizontal DNA transfer. The relaxase TrwC of the conjugative plasmid R388 cleaves one strand of the transferred DNA at the oriT gene, covalently attaches to it, and leads the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) into the recipient cell. In addition, TrwC catalyzes site-specific integration of the transferred DNA into its target sequence present in the genome of the recipient bacterium. Here, we report the analysis of the efficiency and specificity of the integrase activity of TrwC in human cells, using the type IV secretion system of the human pathogen Bartonella henselae to introduce relaxase-DNA complexes. Compared to Mob relaxase from plasmid pBGR1, we found that TrwC mediated a 10-fold increase in the rate of plasmid DNA transfer to human cells and a 100-fold increase in the rate of chromosomal integration of the transferred DNA. We used linear amplification-mediated PCR and plasmid rescue to characterize the integration pattern in the human genome. DNA sequence analysis revealed mostly reconstituted oriT sequences, indicating that TrwC is active and recircularizes transferred DNA in human cells. One TrwC-mediated site-specific integration event was detected, proving that TrwC is capable of mediating site-specific integration in the human genome, albeit with very low efficiency compared to the rate of random integration. Our results suggest that TrwC may stabilize the plasmid DNA molecules in the nucleus of the human cell, probably by recircularization of the transferred DNA strand. This stabilization would increase the opportunities for integration of the DNA by the host machinery. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/164602 | DOI: | 10.1128/AEM.00207-17 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1128/AEM.00207-17 e-issn: 1098-5336 issn: 0099-2240 |
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