Endonuclease III interactions with DNA substrates. 2. The DNA repair enzyme endonuclease III binds differently to intact DNA and to apyrimidinic/apurinic DNA substrates as shown by tryptophan fluorescence quenching.
Endonuclease III interactions with DNA substrates. 2. The DNA repair enzyme endonuclease III binds differently to intact DNA and to apyrimidinic/apurinic DNA substrates as shown by tryptophan fluorescence quenching.
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核酸内切酶 III 与 DNA 底物相互作用。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00008a018
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发表时间:
1995
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Scholes,CP
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作者:
Xing,D;Dorr,R;Cunningham,RP;Scholes,CP
Revised Manuscript Received November 1, 1994® abstract: We have measured the fluorescence of the DNA repair enzyme endonuclease III to discover perturbation to its tryptophans by undamaged DNA and AP (apyrimidinic or apurinic) DNA and to estimate binding affinity for intact and AP DNAs. Endonuclease III has twotryptophans, Trp132 in a helix-hairpin—helix region of possible flexibility near the active site for AP lyase activity and Trp178 in the domain containing the iron—sulfur center of endonuclease III; Trp132 is the more solvent-accessible tryptophan [Kuo, C.-F., McRee, D. E., Fisher, C. L., O’Handley, S. F., & Cunningham, RP (1992) Science 258, 434—440]. The fluorescence emission peak wavelength near 350 nm (excitation at 290 nm) indicated an exposure of the fluorescing tryptophans to a polar environment. Quenching of tryptophan fluorescence by iodide demonstrated that there are indeed two tryptophans which are differently accessible to anionic quencher. Significant (~ 60%) fluorescence quenching occurred when endonuclease III was titrated with high molecular weightduplex undamaged poly (dAdT). The apparent second-order nonspecific binding constant to poly (dAdT) was 4 x 107 M-1, and there were approximately 12 base pairs per endonuclease III binding site for binding to poly (dAdT). This nonspecific binding to duplex DNA had ionic character, and there was no fluorescence quenching brought on by single-stranded DNA. A comparison between fluorescence quenching titrations of high molecular weight duplex DNA and undamaged duplex 19-mer oligonucleotide showed that the binding constant to the high molecular weight DNA was~ 400-fold larger thanto the undamaged 19-mer. Gel shift and footprinting experiments clearly show that duplex oligonucleotide substrates containing a central AP or noncatalyzable reduced AP site strongly bind to endonuclease HI [O’Handley, S., Scholes, CP, & Cunningham, R. P.(1995) Biochemistry 34, 2528—2536], but there was reduced fluorescence quenching in the presence of AP or reduced AP oligonucleotide substrates. Thespecific binding of such AP substrates must involve fluorescing tryptophan-(s) differently from nonspecific binding to undamaged duplex DNA. This difference may correlate with the difference between the five-to seven-base pair size of the specific, AP-centered binding site determined by footprinting (companion paper) and the 12-base pair size of the nonspecificbinding site determined from these fluorescence measurements. In competition with oligonucleotide 19-mer substrates containing either a central AP site or a reduced AP site, tryptophan fluorescence quenching brought on by high molecular weight poly (dAdT) DNA was eliminated and reduced to nearly its unquenched value. Quantitation of this competitive elimination indicated a specific binding constant of order 4 x 107 M-1 for the reduced AP 19-mersubstrate and a binding constant much greater than 108 M-1 for the AP 19-mer substrate.Endonuclease III (endo III) 1 from Escherichia coli is a DNA repairenzyme that has both DNA/V-glycosylase and apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lyase activities (Katcher & Wal-lace, 1983; Doetsch & Cunningham, 1990). As an AP lyase, the enzyme introduces a single-strand break at the AP site where loss of a base has occurred. Bacteria, yeast, bovine, and human cells share a conserved class of enzymes with similar molecular weights and the same substrate specificity as endo IH from E. coli for damaged DNA cleavage (Doetsch et al., 1987). The overall purpose of this and the companion