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Query: EC:3.6.1.25 (triphosphatase)
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Polyoma virus large tumor antigen (PyV T antigen) has been purified to near homogeneity by immunoaffinity column chromatography. We have detected DNA helicase and ATPase (nucleoside-5'-triphosphatase) activities in the purified PyV T antigen fraction and characterized these activities. The ATPase activity was stimulated about 2-fold by poly(dT), which was the most effective stimulator among the synthetic polynucleotides tested. Natural nucleic acids, such as calf thymus native and heat-denatured DNA, and single-stranded circular fd DNA were also effective, but the degree of stimulation was less than 1.5-fold. The basal and poly(dT)-stimulated ATPase activities showed similar preference for nucleoside 5'-triphosphates, requirement for divalent cations, and pH optima. The preference for nucleoside 5'-triphosphates was ATP, dATP greater than CTP, UTP much greater than GTP. The only difference observed between the two activities was salt sensitivity. The basal ATPase activity was resistant to KC1 up to 300 mM. In contrast, poly-(dT)-stimulated activity was reduced to the level of basal activity at 300 mM KC1. DNA helicase activity required divalent cations and was dependent on hydrolysis of ATP. The activity showed similar preference for nucleoside 5'-triphosphates, requirement for divalent cations, and pH optimum as the two ATPase activities, and the salt sensitivity of DNA helicase activity was similar to that of poly(dT)-stimulated ATPase activity. The helicase activity was inhibited competitively by the addition of single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, and a relatively high inhibitory activity was observed with poly [d(A-T)]. The PyV T antigen helicase was found to migrate in the 3' to 5' direction along the DNA strand to which the protein bound.
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PMID:DNA helicase and nucleoside-5'-triphosphatase activities of polyoma virus large tumor antigen. 216 Feb 69

A previously unreported single-stranded DNA-dependent nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase with DNA unwinding activity has been purified from extracts of Escherichia coli lacking the F factor. Fractions of the purified enzyme contain a major polypeptide of Mr = 75,000 which contains the active site(s) for both ATP hydrolysis and helicase activity. This is consistent with the results of gel filtration chromatography which indicate a native molecular mass of 75 kDa. The 75-kDa helicase has a preference for ATP (dATP) as a substrate in the hydrolysis reaction and requires the presence of a single-stranded DNA cofactor. The helicase reaction catalyzed by the enzyme has been characterized using an in vitro strand displacement assay. The 75-kDa helicase displaces a 71-nucleotide DNA fragment in an enzyme concentration-dependent and time-dependent reaction. The helicase reaction depends on the presence of a hydrolyzable nucleoside 5'-triphosphate (NTP) suggesting that NTP hydrolysis is required for the unwinding activity. In addition, the enzyme can displace a 343-nucleotide DNA fragment albeit less efficiently. The direction of the unwinding reaction is 3' to 5' with respect to the strand of DNA on which the enzyme is bound. The molecular size of this helicase and the direction of the unwinding reaction are similar to both helicase II and Rep protein. However, the 75-kDa helicase has been shown to be distinct from both helicase II and Rep protein using immunological, physical, and genetic criteria. The discovery of a new helicase brings the total number of helicases found in E. coli cell extracts (lacking F factor) to five.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a new DNA-dependent ATPase with helicase activity from Escherichia coli. 282 20

Bacteriophage T7 gene 4 protein, purified from phage-infected cells, consists of a mixture of a 56- and a 63-kDa species that provides primase and helicase activities for T7 DNA replication. The 56-kDa species has been purified 1800-fold from Escherichia coli cells containing a plasmid that encodes this gene 4 protein. The purified 56-kDa protein is homogeneous, as determined by denaturing gel electrophoresis, and is monomeric in its native form, as indicated by gel filtration. The binding of the 56-kDa protein to single-stranded DNA is stimulated by nucleoside 5'-triphosphates, as is the case for a mixture of the two molecular weight species. In the presence of DNA, the 56-kDa protein preferentially hydrolyzes dTTP (Bernstein, J. A., and Richardson, C. C. (1988) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 85, 396-400). Since nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase activity is necessary for both helicase activity and for translocation of gene 4 protein to primase recognition sites, we have characterized this activity using the 56-kDa protein alone. In the DNA-dependent hydrolysis reaction, the enzyme displays a Km of 10 mM for dTTP, and a Vmax of 2.9 x 10(-5) M/min/mg of protein (at 2.5 micrograms/ml). There is little cooperativity with respect to dTTP binding (Hill coefficient = 1.1) except in the presence of ribonucleoside 5'-triphosphate, an inhibitor of dTTP hydrolysis (Hill coefficient greater than 1.5). The apparent KD for single-stranded circular DNA is 0.2 microM. The active species in dTTP hydrolysis is an oligomer of at least two subunits, as indicated by the effect of enzyme concentration upon the rate of DNA-dependent hydrolysis. The 56-kDa protein also catalyzes DNA-independent hydrolysis of dTTP with a Km of 0.11 mM and a Vmax of 1.3 x 10(-7) M/min/mg of protein (at 8 micrograms/ml). The active species in DNA-independent dTTP hydrolysis is also an oligomer.
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PMID:Purification of the 56-kDa component of the bacteriophage T7 primase/helicase and characterization of its nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase activity. 284 90

Escherichia coli helicase II, product of the uvrD gene, is a single-stranded DNA-dependent nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase with helicase activity. As a DNA-dependent ATPase, helicase II translocates processively along single-stranded DNA (S. W. Matson, unpublished results). The direction of translocation has been determined using a helicase assay that directly measures the ability of helicase II to catalyze the displacement of a labeled DNA fragment from one end of a single-stranded linear DNA molecule. The translocation of helicase II along single-stranded DNA is unidirectional and in the 3' to 5' direction with respect to the DNA strand on which the enzyme is bound. A kinetic analysis of the displacement of a labeled DNA fragment annealed to a linear single-stranded DNA molecule is also consistent with unidirectional translocation in the 3' to 5' direction. These results are contrary to results previously obtained using an indirect helicase assay (Kuhn, B., Abdel-Monem, M., Krell, H., and Hoffmann-Berling, H. (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 11343-11350).
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PMID:Escherichia coli helicase II (urvD gene product) translocates unidirectionally in a 3' to 5' direction. 294 37

Helicase III from Escherichia coli has been purified to near homogeneity using single-stranded DNA-dependent adenosine nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase activity as an assay to monitor the purification. The denatured form of this 18.5-kilodalton polypeptide, isolated on a preparative polyacrylamide gel run in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, has been used as an antigen to direct the production of rabbit anti-helicase III antibodies. The antibodies obtained fail to inhibit directly either the helicase activity or the DNA-dependent adenosine nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase activity of helicase III. However, when the antigen-antibody complex is removed from solution by binding to Staphylococcus aureus cells with subsequent sedimentation, there is excellent correlation between the loss of both enzymatic activities and the loss of the helicase III polypeptide. The anti-helicase III antibodies have been used as a reagent to probe immunologically a library of E. coli DNA fragments inserted into the plasmid pBR322 for expression of the helicase III antigen. The gene encoding helicase III has been localized on a 2.0-kilobase pair PvuII-EcoRI fragment. Bacterial cells harboring a multicopy plasmid containing this fragment overproduce the helicase III antigen approximately 100-fold.
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PMID:Production of antibodies directed against Escherichia coli helicase III and the molecular cloning of the helicase III gene. 299 49

Escherichia coli helicase II has been purified to near homogeneity from cells harboring a multicopy plasmid containing the structural gene for helicase II, uvrD. In this paper a detailed description of the single-stranded DNA-dependent nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase and helicase reactions catalyzed by helicase II is presented. The results of this study suggest that nucleoside 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis provides the energy required for translocation of the enzyme along single-stranded DNA. Measurements of the rate of ATP hydrolysis using a variety of single-stranded DNAs of known structure and length suggest a processive translocation mechanism for helicase II. Single-stranded DNA coated with either Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) or bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein fails to support helicase II ATPase activity. Moreover, helicase II is apparently unable to displace a molecule of bound SSB protein from single-stranded DNA when it is encountered in the process of translocation along a single-stranded DNA effector. The helicase reaction has been characterized using an in vitro strand displacement helicase assay. The helicase reaction requires concomitant nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase hydrolysis that is satisfied by the hydrolysis of either rATP or dATP. As the length of duplex DNA present in the partial duplex helicase substrate is increased from 71 base pairs to 343 base pairs, the fraction of duplex DNA molecules that are unwound by helicase II decreases in the absence of any accessory proteins. However, the total number of base pairs of duplex DNA unwound depends primarily on the amount of enzyme added to the helicase reaction and not on the length of the duplex DNA present in the partial duplex DNA substrate. These data suggest the number of base pairs of duplex DNA unwound is directly proportional with the concentration of helicase II in the reaction mixture. In addition, the rate of the unwinding reaction is independent of the length of the duplex DNA available for unwinding. Helicase II has been shown to dissociate from single-stranded DNA molecules infrequently acting as an ATPase. However, the enzyme dissociates from partial duplex helicase substrates more frequently. This suggests a more distributive reaction mechanism on duplex DNA than was observed on single-stranded DNA substrates. The fraction of 343-base pair partial duplex DNA molecules unwound by helicase II can be increased by the addition of appropriate concentrations of E. coli SSB to the reaction. This suggests that helicase II and SSB may act in a concerted reaction to unwind duplex DNA.
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PMID:DNA helicase II of Escherichia coli. Characterization of the single-stranded DNA-dependent NTPase and helicase activities. 302 63

The gene 4 protein of bacteriophage T7 is both a primase and a helicase. In this paper, we present a detailed description of a third activity, single-stranded DNA-dependent nucleoside 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis, and show that this activity is coupled to the unidirectional translocation of the gene 4 protein on single-stranded DNA (Tabor, S., and Richardson, C.C. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 78, 205-209). The competitive inhibitor of NTP hydrolysis, beta, gamma-methylene dTTP, is also a potent inhibitor of gene 4 protein-dependent, RNA-primed DNA synthesis; inhibition is not due to a direct inhibition of T7 DNA polymerase or RNA primer synthesis. We conclude that the energy derived from the hydrolysis of NTPs by the gene 4 protein is required for translocation of the protein to primase recognition sites. Measurement of the rates of hydrolysis of NTPs using a variety of DNAs of known structure and length support the unidirectional translocation of the gene 4 protein on single-stranded DNA. Duplex DNA, RNA, and single-stranded DNA coated with single-stranded DNA-binding protein do not serve as effectors for the nucleoside triphosphatase of the gene 4 protein. Kinetic data suggest that the gene 4 protein does not remain bound to newly synthesized oligoribonucleotide primers but continues to search for other primase recognition sites. Although all the predominant naturally occurring NTPs except rCTP are hydrolyzed by the gene 4 protein, the enzyme shows specificity for dTTP with a Km of 0.4 mM. In the accompanying paper (Matson, S.W., Tabor, S., and Richardson, C.C. (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 14017-14024), we show that the hydrolysis of NTPs is also required for the protein to function as a helicase in duplex regions of DNA.
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PMID:DNA-dependent nucleoside 5'-triphosphatase activity of the gene 4 protein of bacteriophage T7. 613 75

The nonstructural protein NS3 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) possesses two enzymatic domains which are thought to be essential for the virus life cycle: an N-terminal serine-type proteinase, responsible for the processing of nonstructural polypeptides, and a C-terminal nucleoside triphosphatase/helicase, presumably involved in the unwinding of the viral genome. The human antibody response to NS3 usually appears early in the course of HCV infection and is predominantly directed against the carboxyl-terminal portion; however, its fine specificity and clinical significance are largely unknown. We have generated a human monoclonal antibody (hMAb), designated CM3.B6, from a cloned B-cell line obtained from the peripheral blood of a patient with chronic HCV infection, which selectively recognized the purified NS3 protein expressed in bacteria or in eukaryotic cells transfected with full-length or NS3 cDNA. Fine-specificity studies revealed that CM3.B6 recognized a 92-amino-acid sequence (clone 8, amino acids 1363 to 1454) selected from an NS3 DNase fragment library but failed to bind to 12-mer peptides synthesized from the same region, suggesting recognition of a conformational B-cell epitope. Experiments using deletion mutants of clone 8 and competitive inhibition studies using a panel of NS3 peptide-specific murine MAbs indicated that limited N-terminal and C-terminal deletions resulted in a significant reduction of hMAb binding to clone 8, thus identifying a minimal antibody binding domain within clone 8. Competition experiments showed that binding of CM3.B6 to the NS3 protein was efficiently inhibited by 39 of 44 (89%) sera from HCV-infected patients, suggesting that the hMAb recognized an immunodominant epitope within the NS3 region. More importantly, recognition of the sequence defined by CM3.B6 appeared to accurately discriminate between viremic and nonviremic anti-HCV positive sera, suggesting potentially relevant clinical applications in the diagnosis and treatment of HCV infection.
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PMID:Significance of the immune response to a major, conformational B-cell epitope on the hepatitis C virus NS3 region defined by a human monoclonal antibody. 751 28

The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) NS3 protein contains amino acid motifs of a serine proteinase, a nucleotide triphosphatase (NTPase), and an RNA helicase based on amino acid sequence analysis. Proteinase and NTPase activities of the HCV NS3 protein were reported by several investigators. Here, we show that the recombinant HCV NS3 protein purified from a T7 promoter and His-tag expression system possesses an RNA helicase activity. The recombinant HCV NS3 protein consists of 466 amino acids from the carboxy terminal of a HCV NS3 open reading frame and 25 additional residues from the vector. The recombinant HCV NS3 protein was purified by metal-binding chromatography. The helicase activity requires ATP and divalent cations such as Mg2+ and Mn2+. The helicase activity was abolished by monoclonal antibody specific to the HCV NS3 protein.
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PMID:C-terminal domain of the hepatitis C virus NS3 protein contains an RNA helicase activity. 757 85

Bacteriophage P4 DNA replication depends on the product of the alpha gene, which has origin recognition ability, DNA helicase activity, and DNA primase activity. One temperature-sensitive and four amber mutations that eliminate DNA replication in vivo were sequenced and located in the alpha gene. Sequence analysis of the entire gene predicted a domain structure for the alpha polypeptide chain (777 amino acid residues, M(r) 84,900), with the N terminus providing the catalytic activity for the primase and the middle part providing that for the helicase/nucleoside triphosphatase. This model was confirmed experimentally in vivo and in vitro. In addition, the ori DNA recognition ability was found to be associated with the C-terminal third of the alpha polypeptide chain. The type A nucleotide-binding site is required for P4 replication in vivo, as shown for alpha mutations at G-506 and K-507. In the absence of an active DnaG protein, the primase function is also essential for P4 replication. Primase-null and helicase-null mutants retain the two remaining activities functionally in vitro and in vivo. The latter was demonstrated by trans complementation studies, indicating the assembly of active P4 replisomes by a primase-null and a helicase-null mutant.
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PMID:Domain structure of phage P4 alpha protein deduced by mutational analysis. 763 18


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