Detection of activities that interfere with the enzymatic assay of deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates.
Detection of activities that interfere with the enzymatic assay of deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates.
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检测干扰脱氧核糖核苷 5-三磷酸酶测定的活性。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)43617-4
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发表时间:
1980
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C. Mathews
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作者:
T. North;R. Bestwick;C. Mathews
Several enzymes that interfere with the enzymatic assay of deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates (dNTP's) are present as contaminants when nucleotides are extracted from HeLa cells with 60% methanol. These activities include a nuclease, nucleoside diphosphokinase, and deoxyribonucleoside monophosphokinases which phosphorylate dAMP, dGMP, and dCMP. Collectively, these enzymes are able to degrade and reutilize the DNA template which is used together with DNA polymerase for dNTP assays. This process introduces large errors when dNTP assays are performed in this manner. Attempts to block the enzymatic conversion of deoxyribonucleoside diphosphates to triphosphates by inhibition of nucleoside diphosphokinase were unsuccessful because of the inability to block completely the kinase activity. Acid extraction of nucleotides also results in the presence of an activity that interferes with the enzymatic dNTP assay. The error introduced by this interfering activity is much smaller than that arising from the enzymes present in methanol extracts. All of these interfering activities are removed when cells are first extracted with 60% methanol and the resulting extract is subsequently treated with perchloric acid.