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Query: EC:3.1.30.2 (endonuclease)
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Two endonucleases specific for DNA-containing apurinic or apyrimidinic sites (AP-endonucleases A and B) have been isolated from Micrococcus luteus and highly purified. These enzymes have no exonuclease activity. Both AP-endonucleases hydrolyze DNA-containing apurinic or apyrimidinic sites at the 5' end of the lesion, thus generating 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-phosphoryl end groups. DNA-containing pyrimidine dimers, introduced at low doses of UV, are not hydrolyzed, whereas DNA-containing lesions, introduced at high doses of UV or by gamma irradiation are nicked by either AP-endonuclease. During hydrolysis of apurinic DNA, neither of the AP-endonucleases acts as a processive enzyme.
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PMID:Micrococcus luteus endonucleases for apurinic/apyrimidinic sites in deoxyribonucleic acid. 2. Further studies on the substrate specificity and mechanism of action. 625 74

A library of Bacillus subtilis chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was constructed, using lambda charon 4A as a cloning vector. Partially cleaved Bacillus subtilis DNA was prepared by partial methylation with EcoRI methylase, followed by complete EcoRI endonuclease digestion. More than 95% of the phage particles carried B. subtilis DNA inserts. When this library was screened for transforming activity, using competent cells, 70% of the genetic markers tested were found in a sample of 1,710 plaques. Cloned genetic loci were found to be about 100-fold more efficient in transforming activity than chromosomal DNA. Intact phage particles containing the pheA locus were found to be able to transform competent recipients with approximately the same efficiency as phage DNA. Transformation by intact particles was insensitive to deoxyribonuclease.
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PMID:Isolation of Bacillus subtilis genes from a charon 4A library. 626 Jul 47

The early steps of excision repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are investigated. It is demonstrated that the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease associated with the Micrococcus luteus uv-specific endonuclease cleaves the phosphodiester bond on the 3' side of the deoxyribose leaving a 3' hydroxy terminus and a 5' phosphoryl terminus. This nick is not a substrate for T4 polynucleotide ligase. The 3' base-free deoxyribose terminus is not a substrate for either the polymerase or the 3' to 5' exonuclease activities of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I. However, the 3' terminus of the nick is converted to a substrate for DNA polymerization by the action of a 5' apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease. A three-step model for the incision step of excision repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers is presented.
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PMID:Early steps of excision repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers by the Micrococcus luteus endonuclease. A three-step incision model. 626 31

The ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease from Bacillus laterosporus has been purified to near homogeneity by a procedure involving ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Sephadex G-150 gel filtration, DEAE-Sephadex A-25 chromatography and DNA-cellulose affinity chromatography. The purified enzyme has a molecular weight of 210,000 +/- 8,000 as determined by sucrose gradient sedimentation. It is composed of two nonidentical polypeptide chains with close molecular weights of around 110,000. The substrate preference of the pure enzyme is essentially identical with the previous result obtained with the partially purified enzyme preparation (Anai, M., Mihara, T., Yamanaka, M., Shibata, T., & Takagi, Y. (1975) J. Biochem. 78, 105-114). Thus, the enzyme degrades double-stranded DNA about 100 times faster than heat-denatured DNA in the presence of ATP. Double-stranded DNA is not degraded to any measurable extent in the absence of ATP, but the enzyme exhibits activity toward denatured DNA in the absence of ATP. Furthermore, no endonuclease activity is observed on covalently closed circular duplex DNA and open circular duplex DNA.
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PMID:An adenosine triphosphate-dependent deoxyribonuclease from Bacillus laterosporus. Improved purification, subunit structure and substrate specificity. 626 32

T4 endonuclease V [endodeoxyribonuclease (pyrimidine dimer), EC 3.1.25.1)], which is involved in repair of UV-damaged DNA, has been purified to apparent physical homogeneity. Incubation of UV-irradiated poly(dA).poly(dT) with the purified enzyme preparations resulted in production of alkali-labile apyrimidinic sites, followed by formation of nicks in the polymer. The activity to produce alkali-labile sites was optimal in a relatively broad pH range (pH 6.0-8.5), whereas the activity to form nicks had a narrow optimum near pH 6.5. By performing a limited reaction with T4 endonuclease V at pH 8.5, irradiated polymer was converted to an intermediate form that carried a large number of alkali-labile sites but only a few nicks. The intermediate was used as substrate for the assay of apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease activity [endodeoxyribonuclease (apurinic or apyrimidinic, EC 2.1.25.2]. The two activities, a pyrimidine dimer DNA glycosylase and an apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease, were copurified and found in enzyme preparations that contained only a 16,000-dalton polypeptide. An enzyme fraction from cells infected with bacteriophage T4v1, a mutant that is sensitive to UV radiation, was defective in both glycosylase and endonuclease activities. Moreover, occurrence of an amber mutation in the denV gene caused a simultaneous loss of the two activities, and suppression of the mutation rendered both activities partially active. These results strongly suggested that a DNA glycosylase specific for pyrimidine dimers and an apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease reside in a single polypeptide chain coded by the denV gene of bacteriophage T4. Because the two activities exhibited different thermosensitivity, it was further suggested that conformation of the active sites for these activities may be different.
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PMID:Physical association of pyrimidine dimer DNA glycosylase and apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease essential for repair of ultraviolet-damaged DNA. 626 6

Recent studies have shown purified preparations of phage T4 UV DNA-incising activity (T4 UV endonuclease or endonuclease V of phage T4) contain a pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase activity that catalyzes hydrolysis of the 5' glycosyl bond of dimerized pyrimidines in UV-irradiated DNA. Such enzyme preparations have also been shown to catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds in UV-irradiated DNA at a neutral pH, presumably reflecting the action of an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease at the apyrimidinic sites created by the pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase. In this study we found that preparations of T4 UV DNA-incising activity contained apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity that nicked depurinated form I simian virus 40 DNA. Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity was also found in extracts of Escherichia coli infected with T4 denV+ phage. Extracts of cells infected with T4 denV mutants contained significantly lower levels of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity; these levels were no greater than the levels present in extracts of uninfected cells. Furthermore, the addition of DNA containing apurinic or apyrimidinic sites to reactions containing UV-irradiated DNA and T4 enzyme resulted in competition for pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase activity against the UV-irradiated DNA. On the basis of these results, we concluded that apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity is encoded by the denV gene of phage T4, the same gene that codes for pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase activity.
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PMID:den V gene of bacteriophage T4 codes for both pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase and apyrimidinic endonuclease activities. 627 Mar 75

Endonuclease V of bacteriophage T4 has been purified to physical homogeneity from T4D-infected Escherichia coli 1100. The enzyme, whose molecular weight is 16,000, possessed two distinct catalytic activities, a pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase and an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease. They acted on UV-irradiated poly(dA) . poly(dT) in a sequential manner; the glycosylase cleaved the N-glycosyl bond between the 5'-pyrimidine of a dimer and the corresponding sugar and then the endonuclease hydrolyzed a phosphodiester bond on the 3'-side of the apyrimidinic site. The 5'-termini thus generated were phosphorylated by T4 polynucleotide kinase only after they had been subjected to direct photoreversal and then treated with alkaline phosphatase. By using two phage mutants, uvs-5 and uvs-13, it was shown that occurrence of an amber mutation in the denV gene caused a simultaneous loss of the two activities. Suppression of the mutation of uvs-5 rendered both activities partially active. When the mutation of uvs-13 was suppressed, a mutant form of enzyme that possessed only a glycosylase activity was produced. This suggests that there are two distinct domains in a single enzyme, each of which corresponds to one of the activities.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of normal and mutant forms of T4 endonuclease V. 627 6

An apurinic endonuclease activity has been characterized in yeast mitochondrial. It is dependent on Mg2+, stimulated by about 50% in the presence of 50 mM NaCl and inhibited at higher NaCl concentrations. It is located in the inner mitochondrial membrane and requires high concentrations of detergent (1.5-3% Triton X-100) to be extracted. The same treatment extracts several other endonuclease activities: the two Mg2+-dependent endonuclease activities cleaving double-stranded DNA at pH 7.5 and 5.4 respectively, the ethidium-bromide-stimulated endonuclease activity, the endonuclease activity cleaving single-stranded DNA at pH 7.l5 [Jacquemin-Sablon et al. (1979) Biochemistry, 18, 119-127], and a manganese-stimulated deoxyribonuclease activity cleaving double-stranded DNA at pH 7.5 which has been discovered during the present work. Another endonuclease activity cleaving double-stranded DNA at pH 7.5 in the presence of Mg2+, slightly stimulated by low NaCl concentrations and inhibited by ethidium bromide is extracted from the membrane pellet remaining after the treatment with 1.5% Triton X-100 by a second treatment with 1.5% Triton X-100 plus 1 M KCl. The presence in the mitochondrial membrane of this apurinic endonuclease activity indicates that, like nuclear and prokaryotic DNA, yeast mitochondrial DNA is also subject to specialized repair systems.
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PMID:Endonucleases in yeast mitochondria: apurinic and manganese-stimulated deoxyribonuclease activities in the inner mitochondrial membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 628 1

An endonuclease activity that acts on alkali-labile lesions in x-irradiated PM2 DNA and recognizes apurinic lesions in heat/acid treated DNA has been partially purified from Drosophila melanogaster embryos and its specific activity monitored throughout early development. The enzyme activity also showed a low level of activity on UV-irradiated DNA. The saturation kinetics observed with both x-irradiated and apurinic PM2 DNA substrates were similar. The endonuclease activity exhibited a broad pH optimum between pH 6 and 8.5 and was almost completely inhibited by 100 mM NaCl, 0.1 mM EDTA, 2 mM CaCl2 and 10 mM NEM. The reaction was not completely dependent on the presence of Mg++cation, but optimum activity was obtained at a concentration of 0.1 mM; concentrations greater than 1 mM Mg++ were inhibitory. The specific activity of the apurinic endonuclease, partially purified from several stages of embryonic and early larval development, remained the same. Unfertilized eggs exhibited a reduced level of this presumptive repair activity.
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PMID:Apurinic endonuclease activity remains constant during early Drosophila development. 644 83

An endonuclease activity for UV-irradiated DNA, gamma-irradiated DNA, and OsO4-treated DNA that was partially purified from human lymphoblasts was found to have associated with it an endonuclease activity for partially depurinated DNA. When this apurinic endonuclease (Endo A) was characterized and compared with the cells' major apurinic endonuclease (Endo B), several notable differences were observed. (1) Endo A bound to oxidized DNA-Sepharose under conditions where Endo B did not. (2) Endo A did not require Mg2+, retaining full activity in 10 mM ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid, while Endo B showed an absolute requirement for Mg2+. (3) Whereas the nicks made in depurinated DNA by Endo B were efficient priming sites for Escherichia coli polymerase I, those made by Endo A were not. Further characterization of the nicks indicated that Endo A incises depurinated DNA 3' to apurinic sites, leaving 3'-terminal deoxyribose, a poor priming site for DNA synthesis. Endo A action on UV-irradiated DNA produced nicks that resembled those it made in depurinated DNA, suggesting that the UV endonuclease activity acts through an apurinic/apyrimidinic site intermediate.
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PMID:Properties of a human lymphoblast AP-endonuclease associated with activity for DNA damaged by ultraviolet light, gamma-rays, or osmium tetroxide. 657 48


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