TRANSIENT GENERATION OF DISPLACED SINGLE-STRANDED-DNA DURING NICK TRANSLATION
TRANSIENT GENERATION OF DISPLACED SINGLE-STRANDED-DNA DURING NICK TRANSLATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(82)90404-4
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
OLIVERA, BM
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作者:
LUNDQUIST, RC;OLIVERA, BM
Displaced single-stranded overhangs are transiently generated and destroyed during nick translation by Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I. Evidence that hyper-rec mutants have an increased frequency of such overhang structures is discussed. The transient generation of overhangs may be significant for general recombination. The 5'' .fwdarw. 3'' exonuclease activity of polymerase I specifically hydrolyzes such overhangs to yield a nick. Overhangs are generated by polymerization, but after every polymerization step, either polymerase or exonuclease can act-55% of the time, polymerization occurred first. At this frequency overhangs of .gtoreq. 12 nucleotides are generated every 1300 nucleotides polymerized. Many DNA strand discontinuities are displaced single-strand overhangs, rather than gaps or simple nicks.