The Interface of Transcription and DNA Replication in the Mitochondria

Overview

Journal Biochim Biophys Acta

Specialties Biochemistry
Biophysics

Date 2011 Dec 31

PMID 22207204

Citations 28

Authors

Rajesh Kasiviswanathan

Tammy R L Collins

William C Copeland

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Abstract

DNA replication of the mitochondrial genome is unique in that replication is not primed by RNA derived from dedicated primases, but instead by extension of processed RNA transcripts laid down by the mitochondrial RNA polymerase. Thus, the RNA polymerase serves not only to generate the transcripts but also the primers needed for mitochondrial DNA replication. The interface between this transcription and DNA replication is not well understood but must be highly regulated and coordinated to carry out both mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription. This review focuses on the extension of RNA primers for DNA replication by the replication machinery and summarizes the current models of DNA replication in mitochondria as well as the proteins involved in mitochondrial DNA replication, namely, the DNA polymerase γ and its accessory subunit, the mitochondrial DNA helicase, the single-stranded DNA binding protein, topoisomerase I and IIIα and RNaseH1. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Mitochondrial Gene Expression.

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