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| Author(s): |
Patricia Diogo de Melo Godoy
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Carolina Quartim Barbosa Elias Sabbaga;
Hugo Aguirre Armelin;
Adriana Silva Hemerly;
Paulo Lee Ho;
Lucile Maria Floeter Winter
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| Advisor: | Maria Carolina Quartim Barbosa Elias Sabbaga |
| Abstract | |
In eukaryotes, the replication origin is recognized by a complex ORC, Cdc6 and other proteins. The trypanosomes contain only one protein, we named it Orc1/Cdc6. Here we show that the recombinant Orc1/Cdc6 from T.cruzi (TcOrc1/Cdc6) and from T.brucei (TbOrc1/Cdc6) present ATPase activity, replaced yeast Cdc6 in a phenotypic complementation assay. The induction of Orc1/Cdc6 silencing by RNA interference in T.brucei resulted in enucleated cells. Orc1/Cdc6 is expressed during the entire cell cycle and in all stages of the life cycle of trypanosomes, remaining associated with chromatin in all stages of the cell cycle. This association is different among the stages from T. cruzi life cycle. In the non replicative ones, Orc1/Cdc6 does not interact with DNA. The lack of pre-replication machinery-DNA interaction in T. cruzi non-replicative stages might contribute to the absence of DNA replication in these stages. (AU) | |