Complex recognition site for the group I intron-encoded endonuclease I-SceII.
Complex recognition site for the group I intron-encoded endonuclease I-SceII.
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I 组内含子编码的核酸内切酶 I-SceII 的复杂识别位点。
DOI:
10.1128/mcb.12.2.716-723.1992
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Butow,RA
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作者:
Wernette,C;Saldanha,R;Smith,D;Ming,D;Perlman,PS;Butow,RA
We have characterized features of the site recognized by a double-stranded DNA endonuclease, I-SceII, encoded by intron 4a of the yeast mitochondrialCOX1gene. We determined the effects of 36 point mutations on the cleavage efficiency of natural and synthetic substrates containing theSaccharomyces capensisI-SceII site. Most mutations of the 18-bp I-SceII recognition site are tolerated by the enzyme, and those mutant sites are cleaved between 42 and 100% as well as the wild-type substrate is. Nine mutants blocked cleavage to ≤33% of the wild-type, whereas only three point mutations, G-4→C, G-12→T, and G-15→C, block cleavage completely. Competition experiments indicate that these three substrates are not cleaved, at least in part because of a marked reduction in the affinity of the enzyme for those mutant DNAs. About 90% of the DNAs derived from randomization of the nucleotide sequence of the 4-bp staggered I-SceII cleavage site are not cleaved by the enzyme. I-SceII cleaves cloned DNA derived from human chromosome 3 about once every 110 kbp. The I-SceII recognition sites in four randomly chosen human DNA clones have 56 to 78% identity with the 18-bp site in yeast mitochondrial DNA; they are cleaved at least 50% as well as the wild-type mitochondrial substrate despite the presence of some substitutions that individually compromise cleavage of the mitochondrial substrate. Analysis of these data suggests that the effect of a given base substitution on I-SceII cleavage may depend on the sequence at other positions.