Apurinic and apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease of extremely thermophilic Thermothrix thiopara.
AUTOR(ES)
Kaboev, O K
RESUMO
An endonuclease specific for apurinic, apyrimidinic (AP) sites in DNA was purified nearly to homogeneity from the extremely thermophilic bacterium Thermothrix thiopara. The enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 26,000. It cleaves neither native nor UV- or gamma-irradiated DNAs and has no contaminating exonuclease or uracil-DNA glycosylase activities. The enzyme has no cofactor requirement and is not inhibited by EDTA or N'-ethylmaleimide. It shows maximal activity at 70 degrees C and a pH between 7.5 and 9.0. The Arrhenius activation energy of the reaction is 17 kJ/mol, and the apparent Km for AP sites is 38 nM. The rate of heat inactivation of the enzyme followed first-order kinetics, with a half-life of 10 min at 70 degrees C but about 150 min in the presence of 0.5 M ammonium sulfate or 0.5 mg of bovine serum albumin per ml at the same temperature. One cell of T. thiopara contains sufficient AP endonuclease activity for hydrolysis of about 10(6) phosphodiester bonds per h at 70 degrees C. An extract of these bacteria does not contain detectable Mg-dependent AP endonuclease activity, and the above-mentioned enzyme appears to be the main AP endonuclease of T. thiopara.
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