Affinity purification and characterization of human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase complexed with BCNU-treated, synthetic oligonucleotide.
AUTOR(ES)
Gonzaga, P E
RESUMO
Tumor cells resistant to chloroethylnitrosourea (CENU) therapy contain high levels of O6-alkylguanine DNA-alkyltransferase (GATase), a DNA repair enzyme that aborts DNA interstrand cross-linking by removing CENU-induced O6-alkylguanine adducts. Because the transferase binds covalently to CENU-treated oligonucleotides, we reacted partially purified GATase from cultured human lymphoblasts with a BCNU-treated, 35S-5'-end-labeled, synthetic oligonucleotide designed to have a polyadenylated 3' terminus. Immunoprobing Western blots of this reaction mixture with GATase-specific monoclonal antibody indicated that 25-30% of the transferase became complexed. We purified this complex by affinity chromatography with oligo(dT) cellulose, recovering homogenous material that appeared as a discrete 35-kDa Coomassie blue or silver-stained band after SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Autoradiography and Western immunoblotting confirmed that this band contained both the radiolabeled oligonucleotide and the GATase protein.
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