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DNA affinity chromatography has been used to identify the major single-stranded nucleic acid binding proteins (SSBs) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There are five abundant species having molecular masses of 50, 45, 31, 23, and 20 kDa. Four of these proteins are cytoplasmic and one is mitochondrial. To date, three of the proteins have been purified to homogeneity. The purified proteins are designated SSB-m, SSB-1, and SSB-2, with molecular masses of 20, 45, and 50 kDa, respectively. SSB-m is found only in mitochondrial subcellular fractions. SSB-1 stimulates purified yeast DNA polymerase I, while SSB-2 inhibits DNA polymerase I. An antibody against SSB-1 has been prepared in rabbits and purified by SSB-1-Sepharose affinity chromatography. The purified antibody specifically inhibits DNA synthesis in an in vitro replication system, suggesting that SSB-1 may be involved in DNA replication in vivo. SSB-2 has the highest affinity for single-stranded DNA of all three proteins. It may represent a new class of eukaryotic SSB, on the basis of molecular weight, inhibition of DNA polymerase and antigenicity. Antibodies have also been prepared against SSB-2. The immunological reagents have been used to show that SSB-1, SSB-2, and SSB-m are antigenically distinct, as well as to study the relationship of these three SSBs to other proteins in yeast.
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PMID:Multiple species of single-stranded nucleic acid-binding proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 390 14

We sought a protein from yeast that would bind more strongly to single-stranded DNA than to duplex DNA and would stimulate the activity of the major yeast DNA polymerase, but not polymerases from other organisms. We isolated a protein that binds about 200 times more strongly to single-stranded DNA than duplex DNA and stimulates yeast DNA polymerase I activity 4-5-fold. It inhibits synthesis catalyzed by calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha and has little effect on T4 DNA polymerase. This yeast protein, SSB-1, has a molecular weight of approximately 40 000. At apparent saturation there is one protein molecule bound per 40 nucleotides. Protein binding causes the single-stranded DNA molecule to assume a relatively extended conformation. It binds to single-stranded RNA as strongly as to DNA. SSB-1 increases the initial rate of polymerization catalyzed by yeast DNA polymerase I apparently by increasing the processivity of the enzyme. We estimate there are 7500-30 000 molecules of SSB-1 per yeast cell, enough to bind at least 400-1600 nucleotides per replication fork. Thus it is present in sufficient abundance to participate in DNA replication in vivo in the manner suggested by these in vitro experiments.
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PMID:Isolation of a yeast single-strand deoxyribonucleic acid binding protein that specifically stimulates yeast DNA polymerase I. 619 41