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Query: EC:2.7.7.7 (DNA polymerase)
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Nuclear extracts of varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-infected human embryo lung (HEL) cells were found to contain DNA polymerase activity not present in uninfected HEL cells. This enzyme was designated the VZV-induced DNA polymerase. The VZV-induced polymerase was partially separated from the cellular alpha- and beta-polymerases by fractionation of the cells and by phosphocellulose chromatography. The separated enzymes were examined for the effect of added (NH4)2SO4, activity with synthetic templates, optimal pH, and the effect of phosphonoacetic acid. The VZV-induced DNA polymerase was distinct from cellular enzymes and had the properties of a typical herpesvirus-induced DNA polymerase.
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PMID:Varicella-zoster virus-induced DNA polymerase. 2 Dec 26

Partially purified hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAG) was prepared by ultracentrifugation, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and molecular sieve chromatography of sera obtained from asymptomatic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen. The antigenic specificity of the HBeAG preparations was investigated further with affinity chromatography. The results indicated that HBeAG is distinct and separable from DNA polymerase activity. Columns coupled with either goat IgG prepared from antiserum to human IgG or antibody to HBeAg bound all detectable HBeAg and bound 31% and 100% of the IgG, respectively, from a partially purified HBeAg preparation. Rate zonal sucrose sedimentation and molecular sieve and ion-exchange chromatography indicated a variability in molecular weight and charge; this finding suggested a heterogenous population of immunoreactivities containing HBeAg. Our preliminary results suggest the existence of an HBeAg-IgG complex.
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PMID:A partial characterization of hepatitis B e antigen. 8 89

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) was isolated from ejaculates of intact and vasectomized men by precipitation with ammonium sulphate and DEAE-cellulose ionexchange chromatography. Velocity centrifugation revealed that all of the IgG from intact males was 7S protein while less than 40% of the seminal IgG of vasectomized men cosedimented with the 7S marker; the remaining, immunologically unidentifiable, protein was considerably smaller and heterogeneous in size. Only the 7S IgG from the post-vasectomy ejaculates inhibited the activity of a DNA polymerase from the seminal fluid of an intact male. These results suggest that formation of antibody reactive with the seminal fluid DNA polymerase is one manifestation of a vasectomy-associated autoimmune response in man.
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PMID:Inhibition of human seminal fluid DNA polymerase by an IgG fraction of seminal plasma from vasectomized men. 10 59

The DNA polymerase of early embryos of Drosophila melanogaster has been purified to near-homogeneity. The purified enzyme gave a single, catalytically active protein band after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, under nondenaturing conditions. Four polypeptides with molecular weights 43,000, 46,000, 58,000, and 148,000 were resolved when this band was electrophoresed under denaturing conditions. At high ionic strengths, the DNA polymerase had a sedimentation coefficient of 8.7 S, a Stokes radius of 78 A and frictional ratio of 1.81, parameters that yield a molecular weight of 280,000. The purified DNA polymerase possessed no detectable endo- or exodeoxyribonuclease, ATPase, or RNA polymerase activity. Using an "activated" DNA template-primer, the enzyme had a pH optimum of 8.5. It was stimulated by (NH4)2SO4, KCl, and to a lesser extent, NaCl. A divalent metal cation was absolutely required; MgCl2 stimulating activity 7-fold more than MnCl2. It was inhibited by low concentrations of N-ethylmaleimide and Aphidicolon. Thus the DNA polymerase of D. melanogaster resembles most closely the alpha-DNA polymerases that have been purified from mammalian cells.
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PMID:A high molecular weight DNA polymerase from Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Purification, structure, and partial characterization. 11 15

Infection of WI-38 human fibroblasts with human cytomegalovirus (CMV) led to the stimulation of host cell DNA polymerase synthesis and induction of a novel virus-specific DNA polymerase. This cytomegalovirus-induced DNA polymerase was purified and separated from host cell enzymes by DEAE-cellulose and phosphocellulose column chromatographies. It can be distinguished from host cell enzymes by chromatographic behavior, template primer specificity, sedimentation property, and the requirement of salt for maximal activity. This virus-induced enzyme has a sedimentation coefficient of 9.2S and is found in both the nuclei and cytoplasm of virus-infected cells, but not in uninfected cells. This enzyme could efficiently use activated calf-thymus DNA, oly(dA)-oligo(dT)12-18, and poly(dC)-oligo(dG)12-18 as template primers, especially poly(dA)-oligo(dT)12-18, but it could not use poly(rA)-oligo(dT)12-18, poly(rC)-oligo(dG)12-18, or oligo(dT)12-18. The enzyme requires Mg2+ for maximal activity, is sensitive to p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, and is not a zinc metalloenzyme. In addition, the cytomegalovirus-induced DNA polymerase activity can be enhanced by adding 0.06 to 0.12 M NaCl or 0.03 to 0.06 M (NH4)2SO4 to the reaction mixture.
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PMID:Human cytomegalovirus. III. Virus-induced DNA polymerase. 16 4

Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase-beta (EC 2.7.7.7) FROM THE Novikoff hepatoma has been purified over 200 000-fold (based on the increase in specific activity), by ammonium sulfate fractionation and chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex, phosphocellulose, hydroxylapatite, and DNA-cellulose. The enzyme is remarkably stable through all stages of purification until DNA-cellulose chromatography when it must be kept in buffers containing 0.5 M NaCl and 1 mg/ml bovine serum albumin for stability. The enzyme appears to be homogeneous as evidenced by a single stainable band when subjected to electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels of different porosity. The stainable band corresponds to the DNA polymerase as determined by slicing sister gels and assaying for enzyme activity. The specific activity of the homogeneous preparation is about 60 000 units/mg. The enzyme lacks detectable exonuclease or endonuclease activity. It has a molecular weight of 32 000 as determined by sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In sucrose gradients, the molecular weight is estimated at 31 000. The isoelectric point of the hydroxylapatite fraction enzyme is 8.5. The Novikoff beta-polymerase requires all four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, primer-template, and a divalent cation for maximal activity. The apparent Km for total deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate is 7-8 muM and for DNA 125 mug/ml. Activated DNA, rendered 7% acid soluble by DNase I, is the preferred primer-template, although a number of synthetic polynucleotides can by efficiently utilized, particularly in the presence of Mm2+ optimum is 7 mM; the Mn2+ optimum is 1 mM. The pH optimum is 8.4 in Tris-HCl or 9.2 in glycine buffer. The beta-polymerase is sstimulated about twofold by NaCl or KCl at an optimum of 50-100 MM, and the enzyme maintains considerable activity at high ionic strengths. The DNA polymerase is inhibited by ethanol, acetone, and a variety of known polymerase inhibitors. Glycols stimulate the enzyme as does spermine or spermidine. Unlike most beta-polymerases, the Novikoff enzyme is moderately sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide.
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PMID:Novikoff hepatoma deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase. Purification and properties of a homogeneous beta polymerase. 18 3

Cytomegalovirus-induced DNA polymerase can be distinguished from infected-cell enzymes by activity in 100 mM (NH4)2SO4. Virus polymerase is stimulated to 145% of control, whereas mock-infected cell polymerase is inhibited to 12% of control without added salt. Mycoplasmas induce a DNA polymerase in cell extracts that is stimulated to 130 to 180% by 25 mM (NH4)2SO4. Mycoplasma DNA polymerase may be mistaken for a virus-induced polymerase when virus stocks are contaminated. Identification of virus, cellular, and mycoplasma DNA polymerases in total cell extracts is described using sedimentation rate and effect of inhibitors on DNA polymerase activities.
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PMID:Distinguishing cytomegalovirus, mycoplasma, and cellular DNA polymerases. 18 34

The Novikoff hepatoma DNA polymerase-beta sediments as a 7.3S form in crude extracts but during purification sediments as a 4.1S form (after diethylaminoethyl-Sephadex chromatography) or as a 3.3S form (after DNA-cellulose chromatography). If 0.25 M ammonium sulfate or 0.5 M NaCl is included in the sucrose gradients, the 7.3S form sediments at 3.3 S; after removal of the salt, it sediments again at 7.3 S, indicating the reversibility of the aggregation phenomenon. By careful adjustment of ionic strength in the gradient, four distinct and reproducible forms of the enzyme sedimenting at 7.3, 5.8, 4.1, and 3.3 S can be generated. The isoelectric point of the DNA polymerase also changes during purification; the 7.3S form has a pI of 7.5, while the 4.1S form isoelectrically focuses at a pH of 8.5. During DNA-cellulose chromatography, the Novikoff beta-polymerase is separated from a stimulatory factor designated as Novikoff factor IV. Factor IV is a protein as shown by its sensitivity to protease and resistance to nucleases. It is responsible for converting the 3.3S enzyme to the 4.1S form since the 3.3S homogeneous DNA polymerase-beta sediments at 4.1 S in the presence of factor IV. Factor IV confers stability to the polymerase in low ionic strength buffers as well as stability to heat denaturation. Factor IV has the ability to increase the activity of the 3.3S homogeneous polymerase by about fourfold.
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PMID:Novikoff hepatoma deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase. Identification of a stimulatory protein bound to the beta-polymerase. 19 Oct 73

Infection of WI-38 human fibroblasts with varicella-zoster virus led to the stimulation of host cell DNA polymerase synthesis and induction of a new virus-specific DNA polymerase. This virus-induced DNA polymerase was partially purified and separated from host cell enzymes by DEAE-cellulose and phosphocellulose column chromatographies. This virus-induced enzyme could be distinguished from host cell enzyme by its chromatographic behavior, template specificity, and its requirement of salt for maximal activity. The enzyme could efficiently use poly(dC).oligo(dG)12-18 as well as poly(dA).oligo(dT)12-18 as template-primers. It required Mg2+ for maximal polymerization activity and was sensitive to phosphonoacetic acid, to which host alpha- and beta-DNA polymerase were relatively resistant. In addition, this induced DNA polymerase activity was enhanced by adding 60 mM (NH4)2SO4 to the reaction mixture.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of varicella-zoster virus-induced DNA polymerase. 20 86

The addition of iododeoxyuridine to P3HR-I cell cultures led to a large increase in both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced DNA polymerase activity and early antigen-positive cells. This EBV-induced DNA polymerase was separated from the cellular alpha- and beta-polymerases by sequential column chromatography on Sepharose 6B, DEAE-cellulose, and phosphocellulose, resulting in partial purification of about 320-fold. The partially purified-EBV DNA polymerase could be distinguished from the cellular DNA polymerases by its activation by salts, its catalytic properties, and its degree of sensitivity to N-ethylmaleimide, phosphonoacetic acid, araATP, and araCTP. The viral polymerase showed properteis similar to those reported for other herpesvirus DNA polymerases. The enzyme exhibited optimal activity for copying activated calf DNA in the presence of 50 mH (NH4)2SO4 and was resistant to 150 mM (NH4)2SO4. It utilized with high efficiency template-primer poly(dC)-oligo(dG)12-18 or poly(dA)-oligo(dT)12-18, but failed to copy poly(rA)-oligo(dT)10 and oligo(dT)10, indicating that this enzyme has characters distinct from DNA polymerase gamma, reverse transcriptase, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. Phosphonacetic acid inhibited not only EBV DNA polymerase, but also, to a lesser degree, the cellular polymerase alpha. AraATP did not severely inhibit viral activity, whereas the polymerase alpha was inhibited most effectively. Both EBV polymerase and polymerase alpha were inhibited at a comparable level by araCTP.
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PMID:Characterization of an Epstein-Barr virus-induced DNA polymerase. 21 9


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