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Query: EC:2.7.7.49 (reverse transcriptase)
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A micromethod for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other retroviruses in cell culture supernatants is described which applies a DEAE ion exchanger for recovery of polynucleotides synthesized in vitro by the retroviral reverse transcriptase. Cell culture, sample preparation, and test performance including the washing step are adapted to microtitre plates. Compared to the standard method this technique produced less non-specific reactions, resulting in a more than 3-fold higher sensitivity, a higher reproducibility due to lower intrarun variations and allowed an increase in the daily sample accomplishment per person 3- to 4-fold at lower costs per sample.
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PMID:Detection of human immunodeficiency virus and other retroviruses in cell culture supernatants by a reverse transcriptase microassay. 245 27

Japanese quail oviduct total cDNA was synthesized from total mRNA by the classical method, using AMV reverse transcriptase, the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I and S1 nuclease. The results of the synthesis of total ss-cDNA partially differed from those published for the synthesis of chicken total ss-cDNA. The presumed causes of the differences in the complete reverse transcription of mRNAcon and incomplete reverse transcription of mRNAlys and a large part of mRNAov in our case are discussed. An atypical strategy was used for cloning full-length cDNAov. The total cDNA was dC-tailed, then fractionated by analytical agarose electrophoresis and 4 cDNA fractions of different lengths were isolated from the gel using DEAE cellulose membranes. A cDNA fraction about 1500-2500 bp long containing full-length cDNAov was annealed with dG-tailed PstI-linearized plasmid pBR322 and cloned into competent E. coli DHl cells. Seventy-two clones were screened for the presence of full-length cDNAov, initially by insert size and then by means of hybrid-arrested translation. Four clones containing 1900-1980 bp cDNAov were obtained. The cDNA ends in one of these clones were sequenced. Comparison of these sequences with those of chicken mRNAov indicated that almost full-length cDNAov's had been cloned. They lacked a small number of nucleotides at their 5' ends, which had probably been split off during the degradation of the hairpin loop by S1 nuclease. A sequence of 134 bases from the 5' end of mRNAov is presented and compared with the known sequence of chicken mRNAov. The advantages of the cloning strategy employed, in particular, its cloning efficiency and the possibility of simultaneously identifying clones of also other oviduct cDNA species (in this work: cDNAY and, tentatively, cDNAcon), are discussed.
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PMID:Cloning of Japanese quail ovalbumin cDNA in E. coli. 265 90

The DNA polymerase of the Prague strain of Rous sarcoma virus of subgroup C and of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of subgroup A has been solubilized. DNA polymerase purified by sucrose gradient sedimentation and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose represented less than 2% of the soluble [(14)C]protein of the virus. The enzyme was separated from 90% of the viral glycoprotein; it is probably different from the viral group-specific antigen. The sedimentation coefficient (s(20, w)) of the soluble DNA polymerase was 8 S before, and 6 S after, incubation with pancreatic RNase. The molecular weight of the 8S DNA polymerase was estimated to be about 170,000, and that of the 6S DNA polymerase to be about 110,000. Purified DNA polymerase had a high activity with 60-70S viral RNA or salmon DNA as template, but it had a low activity with heat-dissociated 60-70S RNA, influenza virus RNA, or the RNA of tobacco mosaic virus as template. Neither the 8S nor the 6S DNA polymerase had endogenous template activity. The DNA-dependent and the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activities of the Prague strain coincided in sucrose gradients, both in the 8S and the 6S form. It is concluded that the RNA-dependent and the DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activities of the avian tumor viruses are probably due to the same enzyme.
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PMID:Properties of a soluble DNA polymerase isolated from Rous sarcoma virus. 432 88

Polyguanylic acid was found to be a potent inhibitor of RNase H associated with mammalian viral reverse transcriptase, indicating a strong interaction between polyguanylic acid and the reverse transcriptase protein. Based on this observation, we have developed three simple procedures for the purification of mammalian viral reverse transcriptases. In the first procedure, a nucleic acid-free extract of Rauscher murine leukemia virus was applied to a column of phosphocellulose and the reverse transcriptase was eluted by a low concentration (50 microM) of polyguanylic acid. Polyadenylic acid and polyuridylic acid could not replace polyguanylic acid for the elution. In the second procedure, a polyuridylic acid-Sepharose column was substituted for phosphocellulose, and the elution was again achieved by polyguanylic acid. In the third affinity procedure, the reverse transcriptase in a nucleic acid-free viral extract was incubated in the cold with 50 microM polyguanylic acid and the complex was adsorbed onto a DEAE-cellulose column. After washing to remove uncomplexed and weakly complexed proteins, the reverse transcriptase was eluted in a concentrated form at 0.3 M NaCl with a recovery of greater than 70%. by polyacrylamide gel analysis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, the enzyme appeared to be nearly pure.
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PMID:Simple affinity procedure for the purification of mammalian viral reverse transcriptases. 616 Feb 61

The DNA polymerase of the L-cell virion (LCV) was partially purified by chromatography on DEAE cellulose. This enzyme transcribed poly(A) . oligo (dT), poly(C) . oligo(dG), and poly(Cm) . oligo(dG), had a molecular weight of 77,000 daltons and reacted like other murine viral RNA directed DNA polymerases to anti reverse transcriptase specific IgG preparations indicating that it was probably a typical murine viral reverse transcriptase. In addition, like other partially purified mammalian viral reverse transcriptases the LCV DNA polymerase exhibited template independent primer stimulated DNA synthesis. The significance of these results to the unusual endogenous activity of the LCV is discussed.
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PMID:Isolation and characterisation of the L cell virion DNA polymerase. 617 Feb 75

A RNA-directed DNA polymerase was partially purified from a human homologous, mixed mesodermal sarcoma by DEAE-cellulose chromatography after sucrose density centrifugation. The enzyme transcribed poly(rA) most effectively but also transcribed poly(rI), poly(dA) and poly(rG) and to a lesser extent, poly(rmC). It was unable to transcribe poly(rU). The product with poly(rA) as template contained large material (greater than 28S) in addition to some proper size product demonstrating a slippage reaction. This pattern of transcription, while similar to avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase, reveals qualitative differences making direct extrapolation from studies with animal oncornaviruses to human cancer difficult. In this paper, the detection and purification of RNA-directed DNA polymerase from a patient with an uncommon uterine sarcoma is reported along with the template specificities of the enzyme.
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PMID:Template specificities of a RNA-directed DNA polymerase from a human homologous mixed mesodermal sarcoma. 619 Dec 64

RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase was isolated from rat liver, and its characteristics were studied. Wistar rat livers were homogenized in the disruptive buffer, centrifuged at 100,000 g and the supernatant was freed of the nucleic acids by DEAE-cellulose (DE-23) chromatography. The further chromatography of the eluate on DEAE-cellulose (DE-52) and phosphocellulose P-11 resulted in the obtaining of 300-400-fold purified RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase. Even more purified enzyme 1500-fold was isolated from the 165,000 g pellet of postmitochondrial rat liver fraction. The main properties of the purified enzyme are characteristic for the retroviral reverse transcriptase. The enzyme catalyzes DNA synthesis when poly(A)+mRNA is used as a template-primer. Its sedimentation constant amounts to 4.6 S. Mg2+ is preferable to Mn2+ as an activator of the enzyme. The optimal pH is 7.8. Among the products of the enzymic reaction hybrid RNA X DNA molecules were identified.
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PMID:[RNA-dependent DNA polymerase from rat liver]. 620 92

The p30 antigen from Rauscher leukemia virus (R-MuLV) was separated into two fractions by chromatography on either phosphocellulose or DEAE-cellulose. The p30-I and p30-II were indistinguishable immunologically or by isoelectrofocusing and gel electrophoresis. An ATPase activity was tightly associated with p30-II that could not be separated by ion-exchange chromatography, isoelectrofocusing, or glycerol velocity gradient sedimentation. The ATPase hydrolyzed the gamma phosphate from only ATP or dATP. Immunoglobulin directed against R-MuLV p30 completely inhibited the p30-II associated ATPase. Glycerol velocity gradient analysis showed that p30-I sedimented as a 30-kDa species while the p30-II and its associated ATPase sedimented as a 60-kDa species. The p30-II was converted entirely to a 30-kDa form by treatment with 0.2% (w/v) lithium dodecyl sulfate, suggesting that it represented a complexed species of p30. Finally, p30-II was found to stimulate the activity of R-MuLV reverse transcriptase, but p30-I had no effect on the activity of the enzyme. These results suggested the existence of at least two different forms of p30 in R-MuLV.
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PMID:Characterization of a p30 fraction from Rauscher leukemia virus which has an associated ATPase activity. 620 91

The diterpene ester promoter of mouse skin tumors, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), efficiently induces Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated DNA polymerase (DNA nucleotidyltransferase) activity in the EBV-producing lymphoblastoid cell line, P3HR-1. With the use of intervent dilution chromatography followed by sequential DEAE-cellulose and phosphocellulose column chromatography, the virus-associated enzyme has been isolated and purified 300-fold. The partially purified EBV DNA polymerase activity could be distinguished from cellular polymerases by its activation with salt and its degree of sensitivity to N-ethylmaleimide and phosphonoacetic acid. The enzyme showed maximum activity for copying activated calf thymus DNA in the presence of 100 mM ammonium sulfate. In the absence of salt, the enzyme utilized with high efficiency deoxyoligomer-homopolymer templates, but failed to copy poly(rA) . oligo(dT)10 and oligo(dT)10, showing that the enzyme had properties distinct from DNA polymerase gamma, reverse transcriptase, and terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase. The partially purified enzyme is strongly inhibited by acyclovir triphosphate and thus has properties similar to herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase.
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PMID:Induction of Epstein-Barr virus-associated DNA polymerase by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate. Purification and characterization. 624 99

Preparations of purified Rauscher murine leukemia virus were found to contain an endodeoxyribonuclease after disruption of the virus with nonionic detergents. The enzyme makes single-strand breaks in linear or covalently closed circular phage double-stranded DNA molecules. The enzyme was partially purified by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE- and carboxymethyl-Sepharose columns followed by electrophoresis in DNA-containing polyacrylamide gels. The enzyme was separated from reverse transcriptase (p80pol), and the final endonuclease preparation contained no detectable reverse transcriptase activity. The DEAE-Sepharose column-purified endonuclease activity contained a polypeptide of about 40,000 Mr that we term p40. Peptide mapping experiments demonstrated that p40 shares methionine-labeled tryptic peptides with Pr200gag-pol and Pr135pol. Six major methionine-labeled tryptic peptides derived from p40 were found in Pr200gag-pol, but only five of these were detected in Pr135pol. The four core proteins (p30, p15, pp12, and p10) and p80pol plus p40 account for most, but not all, of the peptide sequences of Pr200gag-pol. The endonuclease-associated p40 is similar in size and precursor origin to the avian retrovirus-coded endonuclease (p32). In view of these similarities to the avian p32 endonuclease and its association with partially purified Rauscher murine leukemia virus-associated endonuclease preparations, we propose that p40 is the Rauscher murine leukemia virus-coded endonuclease.
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PMID:Endodeoxyribonuclease activity associated with Rauscher murine leukemia virus. 626 Sep 82


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