Mutational alteration of the breakage/resealing subunit of bacteriophage T4 DNA topoisomerase confers resistance to antitumor agent m-AMSA.
Mutational alteration of the breakage/resealing subunit of bacteriophage T4 DNA topoisomerase confers resistance to antitumor agent m-AMSA.
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噬菌体 T4 DNA 拓扑异构酶的断裂/重新密封亚基的突变改变赋予抗肿瘤剂 m-AMSA 抗性。
DOI:
10.1007/bf00280363
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发表时间:
1990
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Kreuzer,KN
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作者:
Huff,AC;Ward4th,RE;Kreuzer,KN
Bacteriophage T4 provides a simple model system in which to examine the mechanism of action of antitumor agents that have been proposed to attack type II DNA topoisomerases. Prior results demonstrated that T4 type II DNA topoisomerase is the target of antitumor agent 4′-(9-acridinylamino)methanesulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA) in phage-infectedEscherichia coli: a point mutation in topoisomerase structural gene 39 was shown to confer bothm-AMSA-resistant phage growth andm-AMSA-insensitive topoisomerase activity. We report here that a point mutation in T4 topoisomerase structural gene 52 can also independently render both phage growth and topoisomerase activity resistant tom-AMSA. The DNA relaxation and DNA cleavage activities of this newly isolated mutant topoisomerase were significantly insensitive tom-AMSA. The drug-resistance mutation in gene 52, as well as that in gene 39, alters the DNA cleavage site specificity of wild-type T4 topoisomerase. This fording is consistent with a mechanism of drug action in which both topoisomerase and DNA participate in formation of the drug-binding site.