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Query: EC:3.1.22.1 (DNase II)
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A method is described for the extensive purification of acid deoxyribonuclease (acid DNase) and its specific inhibitor from beef liver, the existence of which had been only supported by indirect evidence. By the use of insolubilized acid deoxyribonuclease, eight other proteins interacting with the enzyme have been detected. One of them (molecular weight, 59,000) was identified as responsible for phosphodiesterase activity which is often a contaminant of DNase preparations. Acid DNase (free of phosphodiesterase) and its inhibitor have been obtained as homogeneous proteins, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of acid DNase and its inhibitor are, respectively, 26,500 and 21,500; those of other proteins range from 17,000 to 112,000. The properties of beef liver acid DNase are similar to those described for the enzymes extracted from other sources. The same alteration of DNase kinetics by this inhibitor, as that previously demonstrated with an impure protein has been confirmed; the sigmoidal shape observed at pH 5 for the plot of initial rate versus substrate concentration progressively disappears with increasing pH. We have also demonstrated that RNA, which inhibits the acid DNase through a competitive binding to the catalytic site, is able, like the substrate, to reverse the binding of inhibitor to the enzyme.
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PMID:Protein inhibitor of acid deoxyribonucleases. Improved purification procedure and properties. 0 Mar 96

Four groups of deoxyribonuclease activities from human lymphocytes have been characterized by deoxyribonuclease assay in DNA-containing polyacrylamide gels following their separation by disc-electrophoresis. All activities hydrolyse DNA endonucleolytically. One neutral deoxyribonuclease found in the cytoplasmic fraction prefers native or UV-irradiated DNA over denatured DNA as substrate and is a 5'-monoester former. Two groups of acid deoxyribonuclease activities are detectable in the nuclear fraction. Both are 3'-monoester formers. One is as well active with denatured DNA as with native DNA, the other one shows the same activity with native and UV-irradiated DNA but lower activity with denatured DNA. An alkaline deoxyribonuclease activity, also localized in the nucleus, is a 5'-monoester former, and prefers denatured or UV-irradiated DNA as substrate.
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PMID:Characterization of different deoxyribonucleases in human lymphocytes. 0 50

Methylation of a calf thymus DNA substrate by dimethyl sulphate (DMS) leads to an inhibition of deoxyribonuclease II activity which is gradually lost with time. The extent of this initial inhibition is linearly related to the amount of methylated products in DNA and quantitatively similar effects were found when the enzyme was used under either acid or neutral conditions. Deoxyribonuclease II was shown to produce 3'-phosphate termini under both acid and neutral conditions and thus, irrespective of the ionic conditions for the action of this enzyme in vivo the effects demonstrated here are of potential significance. Local denaturation of the methylated DNA may be partly responsible for these inhibitory effects but it is likely that the methyl purines also play a more direct role.
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PMID:Resistance of alkylated DNA to degradation by deoxyribonuclease II at neutral and acid pH. 0 18

By means of the in situ assay of deoxyribonucleases in DNA-containing polyacrylamide gels after separation by micro-disc-electrophoresis different deoxyribonucleases are detectable in bull seminal plasma. There are two groups of acid deoxyribonuclease-activities with a pH optimum at pH 5.0, one with a pH optimum at pH 7.4 and an additional one with a pH optimum at pH 8.5.
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PMID:[Different deoxyribonuclease-activities in bull seminal plasma (author's transl)]. 1 Jun 93

The endonuclease DNase II preferentially attacks a limited and tissue-specific portion of chromosomal DNA. This material may be separated from the bulk of chromatin DNA by virtue of its solubility in 2 mM MgCl2. The Mg2+ soluble fraction forms a specific subset of DNA sequences and is enriched four to sevenfold in sequences coding for cytoplasmic poly(A)-containing RNA and globin messenger RNA (in globin-producing cells). The bulk (70--90%) of rapidly labelled RNA is found associated with the Mg2+-soluble fraction. Transcriptionally active, Mc2+-soluble chromatin is organized into repeating subunits of DNA (200 +/- 5 base pairs) and histone. Mc2+-soluble active subunits differ from the subunits or nucleosomes of non-transcribed regions in many respects: namely, chemical composition (non-histone protein and RNA), sedimentation properties, differential sensitivity to DNase I and the single-strand-specific nuclease S1, and optical melting behaviour. These results suggest that chromatin subunits adopt a new configuration during the process of transcription.
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PMID:Organization of transcribed regions of chromatin. 2 80

The differentiation of rat liver lysosomal acid phosphatase, acid ATPase, acid phosphodiesterase, acid ribonuclease, and acid deoxyribonuclease was studied by isoelectric focusing. To prevent autolytic digestion, inhibitors of cathepsins and neuraminidase were used. The proportion of acidic forms of acid phosphatase, acid ATPase and acid phosphodiesterase was increased by the use of extraction medium containing 0.05% Triton X-100. To investigate the identity of acid ATPase and acid phosphodiesterase, the relative activities among the multiple forms of these enzymes, the acid phosphodiesterase/acid ATPase ratio at each activity peak, and the degree of enzyme inhibition by p-chloromercuriphenyl sulfonic acid were estimated. The results suggest that acid ATPase is not identical with acid phosphodiesterase. With extraction medium free of Triton X-100, acid ribonuclease appeared in two forms. However, in addition to these forms, a new form of this enzyme with a more acidic pI (4.22) emerged when extraction medium containing 0.05% Triton X-100 was used. The major peak of acid deoxyribonuclease with pI=8.40-9.39 was obtained regardless of the extracting method.
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PMID:An isoelectric focusing study of acid phosphohydrolases in rat liver lysosomes. 2 87

Bleomycin (BLM) exclusively affects thymidine-containing compounds such as DNA and polydeoxyribonucleotides by releasing free thymine and leaving aldehyde functions. Molecular morphology and base sequence of the DNA strongly influence BLM activity. High BLM concentrations, besides modifying DNA into oligothyminic or athyminic nucleic acids, cause strand scissions. Enzymatic DNA and RNA synthesis is strongly influenced by BLM. The inhibition in DNA-dependent DNA polymerase and DNA-dependent RNA polymerase assays is of the non-competitive type. Protein biosynthesis in in vitro systems is not affected by BLM even at high concentrations. BLM turns out to be a strong inhibitor of DNase I and of DNase II; the inhibition is of the competitive type. The enzymatic activities of nucleases using RNA as substrate (RNase A, RNase B, Rnase T1, venom phosphodiesterase I and spleen phosphodiesterase II) are not influenced by this antibiotic. The antibiotic reduces cell proliferation (L5178y mouse lymphoma cells) in vitro in low concentrations by cytostasis and at higher concentrations by cytotoxicity. In BLM-treated L5178y cells, DNA synthesis is strongly reduced, while RNA and protein synthesis are not affected. In vivo, using growing quail oviducts, cell proliferation and cytodifferentiation are markedly inhibited after BLM treatment. This is attributed to the observed inhibition of DNA synthesis. RNA and protein synthesis as well as gene expression are not influenced by BLM under the conditions used. The selective inhibition of DNA synthesis in vivo may be caused by the following mechanisms: (1) competition of BLM with RNA; (2) blocking of the accessibility of DNA in chromatin to BLM, and (3) dependence from the repair processes. BLM inhibits growth of sarcomas, induced by oncogenic RNA viruses in vivo; well-developed tumours show regression after BLM treatment. Transformation of chick embryo fibroblasts by oncogenic RNA viruses in vitro and growth of these viruses is blocked by BLM; the most sensitive period for BLM inhibition is the time during the first period (integration of viral genome into cellular genome?) after infection.
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PMID:Effect of bleomycin on DNA, RNA, protein, chromatin and on cell transformation by oncogenic RNA viruses. 6 69

The results of several tests and the characteristic morphological distribution of the enzymatic activity appeared to be in favor of the validity and specificity of the histochemical lead nitrate technique for alkaline and acid deoxyribonuclease (DNAse) detection. These tests included thermal inhibition, omission of substrate, use of different chemical inhibitors and the reproduction of histochemical staining on Coujard's slides. Most of these results were in conformity with the biochemical data gathered from literature. Topographically selective inhibition of alkaline or acid DNAse by different factors suggested that there might exist two kinds of alkaline or acid DNase--one cytoplasmic and the other one nuclear. The whole histochemical procedure produced relatively small loss of alkaline and acid DNAse activities as verified by biochemical methods.
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PMID:Evaluation of the validity of the histochemical lead nitrate technique for alkaline and acid deoxyribonuclease. 9 2

Diphosphonates are known to inhibit bone resorption in tissue culture and in experimental animals. This effect may be due to their ability to inhibit the dissolution of hydroxyapatite crystals, but other mechanisms may be important. Since lysosomal enzymes have implicated in the process of bone resorption, we have examined the effect of several phosphonates and of a polyphosphate (P20,2) on lysosomal hydrolases derived from rat liver and rat bone. Dichloromethylene diphosphonate strongly inhibited acid beta-glycerophosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2) and acid p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2) and to a lesser degree (in descending order) acid pyrophosphatase (EC 3.1.3.-), arylsulfatase A (EC 3.1.6.1), deoxyribonuclease II(EC 3.1.4.6) and phosphoprotein phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.16) of rat liver. Inhibition of acid p-nitrophenyl phosphatase and arylsulfatase A was competitive. Ethane-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonate did not inhibit any of these enzymes, except at high concentrations. Neither dichloromethylene diphosphonate nor ethane-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonate had any effect on beta-glucuronidase (EC 3.2.1.31), arylesterase (EC 3.1.1.2) and cathepsin D (EC 3.4.23.5). Of several other phosphonates tested only undec-10-ene-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonic acid inhibited acid p-nitrophenyl phosphatase strongly, the polyphosphate (P20, I) had little effect. Acid p-nitrophenyl phosphatase in rat calvaria extract behaved in the same way as the liver enzyme and was also strongly inhibited by dichloromethylene diphosphonate, but not by ethane-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonate. It is suggested that the inhibition of bone resorption by dichloromethylene diphosphonate might be due in part to a direct effect of this diphosphonate on lysosomal hydrolases.
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PMID:The effect of several diphosphonates on acid phosphohydrolases and other lysosomal enzymes. 17 70

5-Iodo-5'-amino-2',5'-dideoxyuridine (AIdUrd) is a novel thymidine analog which inhibits herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HS-1 virus) replication in the absence of detectable host toxicity. When murine, simian, or human cells in culture are treated with [125I]AIdUrd for up to 24 hours essentially none of the nucleoside becomes cell-associated. In contrast, upon HS-1 virus infection significant radiolabel is detected in both nucleotide pools and in DNA. The major acid-soluble metabolite has been shown by enzymic and chromatographic analysis to be the 5'-triphosphate of AIdUrd. DNA from HS-1 virus-infected Vero cells labeled with [14C]thymidine, 5-[125I]iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (IdUrd), or [125I]AIdUrd was isolated by buoyant density centrifugation and subjected to digestion by pancreatic DNase I, spleen DNase II, micrococcal nuclease, spleen, and venom phosphodiesterases. Analysis of the digestion products clearly indicate that AIdUrd is incorporated internally into the DNA structure. DNA containing AIdUrd therefore contains phosphoramidate (P-N) bonds, known to be extremely acid-labile. The selective HS-1 virus-induced phosphorylation of AIdUrd and its subsequent incorporation into DNA may account for the unique biological activity of the AIdUrd nucleoside.
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PMID:Specific herpes simplex virus-induced incorporation of 5-iodo-5'-amino-2',5'-dideoxyuridine into deoxyribonucleic acid. 18 81


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