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Query: EC:3.1.4.1 (phosphodiesterase)
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DNA-binding protein HD with a monomer molecular weight of 9000 was isolated from Escherichia coli cells. The protein occurs as a tetramer under native conditions and binds to single and double-stranded DNA and also to RNA. DNA complexed with protein HD is a poor template for DNA synthesis by E. coli polymerase I, II or III holoenzyme. Exonuclease III is hindered in degrading HD-protein-covered double-stranded DNA, whereas exonuclease I can digest complexed single-stranded DNA. Transcription is liqhtly stimulated in the presence of protein HD.
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PMID:Interaction of DNA with DNA-binding proteins. The characterization of protein HD from Escherichia coli and its nucleic acid complexes. 1 66

The effect of several enzymes of the DNA metabolism of Escherichia coli on the biological activity of native and single-stranded T7 DNA was studied by transfection of lysozyme-EDTA spheroplasts prepared from various E. coli mutants. It is shown that the presence of the recBC DNase in the recipient cells decreases the infectivity of native and denatured DNA by about 100- and 10-fold, respectively. Lack of exonuclease I did not stimulate transfection by single-stranded DNA. Separated light (l) and heavy (r) strands of T7 DNA are fully infective, with a linear dependence on DNA concentrations, whereas heat-denatured DNA shows a two-hit kinetics. Single-stranded DNA was observed to depend on a functional DNA polymerase III for infectivity in polAB cells, whereas transfection with native T7 DNA was independent of the host DNA polymerases. The results are discussed with respect to the mode of T7 DNA replication.
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PMID:In vivo effects of recBC DNase, exonuclease I, and DNA polymerases of Escherichia coli on the infectivity of native and single-stranded DNA of bacteriophage T7. 32 5

A homopolymer system has been developed to examine the digestion strategies of DNA exonucleases. Escherichia coli exonuclease I and lambda-exonuclease, are processive enzymes. However, T7 exonuclease, spleen exonuclease, E. coli exonuclease III, the 3' leads to 5'-exonuclease of T4 DNA polymerase, and both the 3' leads to 5' and the 5' leads to 3' activity of E. coli DNA polymerase I dissociate frequently from the substrate during the course of digestion. Regions of duplex DNA are a dissociation signal for exonuclease I.
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PMID:Processivity of DNA exonucleases. 33 8

A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. The mutant is unable to reactivate phage lambdavir or double-stranded phiX174 DNA (replicative form) that had been treated with methyl methane sulfonate. The mutant is sensitive to other alkylating agents, such as ethyl methane sulfonate, mitomycin C, and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, as well. It grows normally and exhibits almost normal recombination proficiency. The mutant possesses normal levels of DNA polymerase I, exonuclease I, exonuclease V, endonuclease specific for methyl methane sulfonate-treated DNA, and 3-methyladenine-DNA glycosidase activities. The genetic locus responsible has been named alk and is located near his on the chromosome.
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PMID:Escherichia coli gene that controls sensitivity to alkylating agents. 35 28

Endo-R-HindIII restriction endonuclease fragments obtained from F30 and pMB9 plasmid DNAs were ligated in vitro and used to transform a recB21 recC22 sbcB15 strain of E. coli K-12. The inability of this strain to stably maintain pMB9 alone permitted the isolation of transformants that carried hybrid plasmids containing the sbcB+ allele. These transformants became sensitive to ultraviolet light and recombination defieient and showed a 25-fold increase in the level of exonuclease I activity. The stability of the sbcB hybrid plasmids and their effects on exonuclease I activity have also been determined in wild-type and recA1 genetic backgrounds. The presence of the plasmids results in a 7-fold increase in the level of exonuclease I in a wild-type strain and 15-fold increase in a recA1 strain. The increased activity in the recA1 mutant appears to be a result of increased plasmid stability in this genetic background.
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PMID:Amplification in Escherichia coli of enzymes involved in genetic recombination: construction of hybrid ColE1 plasmids carrying the structural gene for exonuclease I. 79 Mar 87

Superhelical [3-H]DNA (replicative form I, RFI) of bacteriophage phiX174 slowly but spontaneously took up 32-P-labeled homologous single-stranded fragments at 4 degrees. Uptake was accelerated by heating to 75 degrees. RFI did not take up single-stranded fragments derived from DNA of Escherichia coli or from separated strands of phage lambda. Uptake was inhibited by low concentrations of ethidium bromide. Relaxed circular phiX174 DNA did not take up homologous fragments. Per molecule of RFI, the complexes contained as much as 90 nucleotide residues of homologous fragment. The 32-P-lebeled fragments were largely resistant to digestion by exonuclease I, and were not displaced by heating complexes at 60 degrees for 1 min in 16 mM or 100 mM NaCl. Under comparable conditions of temperature and salt all of the fragments were displaced from complexes in which at least one phosphodiester bond was cleaved by pancreatic DNase, but a significant fraction of the fragments was retained in complexes that were relaxed by digestion with S1 nuclease. These observations are interpreted to mean that S1 nuclease digested the plus (viral) strand of the recipient RF at the site of uptake in some instances. Transfection of E. coli by heterozygous complexes produced recombinant progeny, thereby showing that genetic information can be transferred from the fragment of plus strand to progeny plus strands. We propose that both uptake of a third strand by superhelical DNA and the action of nucleases on the resulting complex may simulate early steps in genetic recombination.
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PMID:Uptake of homologous single-stranded fragments by superhelical DNA: a possible mechanism for initiation of genetic recombination. 109 67

The rate of formation of high-molecular-weight daughter DNA in the conditionally lethal double mutant polA12 uvrE502, incubated at nonpermissive temperature, was slower than that in the single polA12 mutant. There exist at least two pathways determining viability of Escherichia coli cells: one of them is dependent on polA+ and recB+ genes, while another is polA+ and recB+ genes, while another is polA recB independent but requires the uvrE+ gene and can be blocked by exonuclease I. The RecF but not the RecBC pathway of genetic recombination was found to be absolutely dependent on the polymerizing activity of DNA polymerase I. The involvement of DNA polymerase I in genetic recombination in the recB- C- sbsB strain and viability in the uvrE- or recB- strains suggest the existence of the common steps required for the accomplishing of the RecF pathway of recombination and for viability of E. coli.
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PMID:The role of DNA polymerase I in genetic recombination and viability of Escherichia coli. 110 51

Infection of Escherichia coli with phage T4 gene 2am was used to transport 3H-labeled linear duplex DNA into cells to follow its degradation in relation to the cellular genotype. In wild-type cells, 49% of the DNA was made acid soluble within 60 min; in recB or recC cells, only about 5% of the DNA was made acid soluble. Remarkably, in recD cells about 25% of the DNA was rendered acid soluble. The DNA degradation in recD cells depended on intact recB and recC genes. The degradation in recD cells was largely decreased by mutations in recJ (which eliminates the 5' single-strand-specific exonuclease coded by this gene) or xonA (which abolishes the 3' single-strand-specific exonuclease I). In a recD recJ xonA triple mutant, the degradation of linear duplex DNA was roughly at the level of a recB mutant. Results similar to those with the set of recD strains were also obtained with a recC++ mutant (in which the RecD protein is intact but does not function) and its recJ, xonA, and recJ xonA derivatives. The observations provide evidence for a recBC-dependent DNA-unwinding activity that renders unwound DNA susceptible to exonucleolytic degradation. It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants. The RecBC helicase indirectly detected here may have a central function in Chi-dependent recombination and in the recombinational repair of double-strand breaks by the RecBCD pathway.
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PMID:Evidence that recBC-dependent degradation of duplex DNA in Escherichia coli recD mutants involves DNA unwinding. 132 85

DNA deoxyribophosphodiesterase (dRpase) of E. coli catalyzes the release of deoxyribose-phosphate moieties following the cleavage of DNA at an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site by either an AP endonuclease or AP lyase. Exonuclease I is a single-strand specific DNA nuclease which affects the expression of recombination and repair pathways in E. coli. We show here that a major dRpase activity in E. coli is associated with the exonuclease I protein. Highly purified exonuclease I isolated from an over-producing stain contains high levels of dRpase activity; it catalyzes the release of deoxyribose-5-phosphate from an AP site incised with endonuclease IV of E. coli and the release of 4-hydroxy-2-pentenal-5-phosphate from an AP site incised by the AP lyase activity of endonuclease III of E. coli. A strain containing a deletion of the sbcB gene showed little dRpase activity; the activity could be restored by transformation of the strain with a plasmid containing the sbcB gene. The dRpase activity isolated from an overproducing stain was increased 70-fold as compared to a normal sbcB+ strain (AB3027). These results suggest that the dRpase activity may be important in pathways for both DNA repair and recombination.
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PMID:DNA deoxyribophosphodiesterase of Escherichia coli is associated with exonuclease I. 132 27

A new method for the preparation of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli, sequential enzymatic digestion, is described. The method is based on sequential and selective enzymatic digestion of all components of E. coli except for the supercoiled plasmid DNA. The key enzymes are exonuclease I and exonuclease III that specifically hydrolyze linear chromosomal DNA and are unable to attack supercoiled plasmid DNA under controlled conditions. Isolated plasmid DNA can be sequenced and digested with restriction enzymes.
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PMID:Preparation of plasmid DNA by sequential enzymatic digestion. 136 68


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