Drosophila P-element transposase is a novel site-specific endonuclease
AUTOR(ES)
Beall, Eileen L.
FONTE
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
RESUMO
We developed in vitro assays to study the first step of the P-element transposition reaction: donor DNA cleavage. We found that P-element transposase required both 5′ and 3′ P-element termini for efficient DNA cleavage to occur, suggesting that a synaptic complex forms prior to cleavage. Transposase made a staggered cleavage at the P-element termini that is novel for all known site-specific endonucleases: the 3′ cleavage site is at the end of the P-element, whereas the 5′ cleavage site is 17 bp within the P-element 31-bp inverted repeats. The P-element termini were protected from exonucleolytic degradation following the cleavage reaction, suggesting that a stable protein complex remains bound to the element termini after cleavage. These data are consistent with a cut-and-paste mechanism for P-element transposition and may explain why P elements predominantly excise imprecisely in vivo.
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