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The replication of DNA containing either the polyoma or SV40 origin has been done in vitro. Each system requires its cognate large-tumour antigen (T antigen) and extracts from cells that support its replication in vivo. The host-cell source of DNA polymerase alpha - primase complex plays an important role in discriminating between polyoma T antigen and SV40 T antigen-dependent replication of their homologous DNA. The SV40 origin- and T antigen-dependent DNA replication has been reconstituted in vitro with purified protein components isolated from HeLa cells. In addition to SV40 T antigen, HeLa DNA polymerase alpha - primase complex, eukaryotic topoisomerase I and a single-strand DNA binding protein from HeLa cells are required. The latter activity, isolated solely by its ability to support SV40 DNA replication, sediments and copurifies with two major protein species of 72 and 76 kDa. Although crude fractions yielded closed circular monomer products, the purified system does not. However, the addition of crude fractions to the purified system resulted in the formation of replicative form I (RFI) products. We have separated the replication reaction with purified components into multiple steps. In an early step, T antigen in conjunction with a eukaryotic topoisomerase (or DNA gyrase) and a DNA binding protein, catalyses the conversion of a circular duplex DNA molecule containing the SV40 origin to a highly underwound covalently closed circle. This reaction requires the action of a helicase activity and the SV40 T antigen preparation contains such an activity. The T antigen associated ability to unwind DNA copurified with other activities intrinsic to T antigen (ability to support replication of SV40 DNA containing the SV40 origin, poly dT-stimulated ATPase activity and DNA helicase).
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PMID:In vitro replication of DNA containing either the SV40 or the polyoma origin. 289 81

We report here the large scale purification of DNA topoisomerase II from calf thymus glands, using the unknotting of naturally knotted P4 phage DNA as an assay for enzymatic activity. Topoisomerase II was purified more than 1300-fold as compared to the whole cell homogenate, with 22% yield. Analysis of the purified enzyme by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed two bands of apparent molecular masses of 125 and 140 kDa. Tryptic maps of the two bands indicated that they derive from the same protein. Using these fragments, specific polyclonal antisera to topoisomerase II were raised in rabbits. Immunoblotting of whole cell lysates from various species indicated that topoisomerase II is well conserved among mammals and has a native subunit molecular mass of 180 kDa. Analytical sedimentation and gel filtration were used to determine a sedimentation coefficient of 9.8 S and a Stokes radius of 68 A. The calculated solution molecular mass of 277 kDa implies a dimer structure in solution. The purified topoisomerase II unknots P4 DNA in an ATP-dependent manner and is highly stimulated in its relaxation activity by ATP. A DNA-stimulated ATPase activity, as has been found with other type II topoisomerases, is associated with the purified enzyme. Approximate kinetic parameters for the ATPase reaction were determined to be: a Vmax of 0.06 nmol of ATP/(micrograms of protein) (min) and Km of 0.2 mM in the absence of DNA, and a Vmax of 0.2 nmol of ATP/(micrograms of protein) (min) and Km of 0.4 mM ATP in the presence of supercoiled plasmid DNA.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a type II DNA topoisomerase from bovine calf thymus. 298 21

We have studied the ATPase activity of DNA gyrase both in the absence and presence of DNA. In the absence of DNA we show that the gyrase B protein alone has a very low level of ATPase activity which can be increased many-fold by pretreatment of the B protein with heat or urea. When both the gyrase A protein and linear DNA are also present, the ATPase activity of the untreated B protein is greatly stimulated. We find that the extent of stimulation is dependent upon the length of the DNA but largely independent of DNA sequence. DNA molecules greater than 100 base pairs in length are much more effective in stimulating the gyrase ATPase than those of 70 base pairs or less, although short DNA molecules will stimulate the ATPase at high concentrations. The behavior of long and short DNA molecules with respect to ATPase stimulation is also reflected in their abilities to bind DNA gyrase. To account for these data we propose a model for the interaction of gyrase with ATP and DNA in which ATP hydrolysis requires the binding of DNA to two sites on the enzyme.
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PMID:The DNA dependence of the ATPase activity of DNA gyrase. 609 59

Novobiocin-Sepharose was prepared by coupling of novobiocin to Epoxy-activated Sepharose 6B and used as an affinity adsorbent. Four novobiocin-binding proteins were isolated from crude extracts of Escherichia coli with molecular weights of 105, 92, 85 and 40 kdal. The two larger proteins were identified as the A subunit (gyrA protein) and the B subunit (gyrB protein) of DNA gyrase topoisomerase II). By this method the two gyrase components can be easily separated and purified in high yield. Although both proteins are involved in the ATP-dependent supercoiling of relaxed plasmid DNA, only the gyrB protein is required for catalyzing the cleavage of ATP. The gyrB protein ATPase activity is competitively inhibited by novobiocin and related coumarin antibiotics. ATP hydrolysis is unaffected by the addition of either gyrA protein or DNA but stimulated in the presence of both.
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PMID:DNA gyrase: affinity chromatography on novobiocin-Sepharose and catalytic properties. 626 86

DNA gyrase from Bacillus subtilis 168 was purified by affinity chromatography on novobiocin-Sepharose and shown to consist of two subunits, A and B, with molecular weights of 100,000 and 85,000, respectively. The B subunits, which contains novobiocin-sensitive. ATPase activity, could complement the gyrA protein of Escherichia coli. No complementation was detected between the A subunit and the E. coli gyrB protein.
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PMID:Bacillus subtilis DNA gyrase: purification of subunits and reconstitution of supercoiling activity. 628 12

We have recently demonstrated by electron microscopic cytochemical methods that unfixed human fibroblasts exhibit intense MG2+ dependent adenosine triphosphatase (nATPase) activity in circumscribed areas of the cell nucleoli. The nATPase was specific for ATP and dATP and was inhibited by other ribonucleoside triphosphates. Its intranucleolar localization relative to nucleolar chromatin, and segregation into nucleolar zones after actinomycin treatment of the cells, suggested that the reaction took place in fibrillar centers. This ATPase has now been further characterized by electron microscopic cytochemistry. It was determined that short fixation permitted retention of most of the ATPase activity, and that the enzyme was active at high ionic strength (up to 400 mM KCl), but that the enzyme activity was very sensitive to elevated temperatures. DNA dependence of the enzyme was shown by inhibition of the reaction by DNase pretreatment in parallel with the removal of DNA from the cell, while pretreatment with RNase had no significant effect. The nATPase activity was also selectively inhibited by treatment of the cells with antagonists of the B subunit of DNA gyrase, novobiocin, and coumermycin, but not by nalidixic or oxolinic acids, which interfere with the A subunit of gyrase. Inhibitors of RNA synthesis, actinomycin D and aminonucleoside of puromycin, potentiate rather than inhibit nATPase reaction. The results suggest that nATPase functions to alter the degree of supercoiling or catenation of nucleolar organizer DNA, and is in reality a DNA topoisomerase that hydrolyzes ATP during its action.
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PMID:DNA dependence and inhibition by novobiocin and coumermycin of the nucleolar adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) of human fibroblasts. 646 Aug 2

We investigated how cyclothialidine (Ro 09-1437), a novel DNA gyrase inhibitor belonging to a new chemical class of compounds, acts to inhibit Escherichia coli DNA gyrase. Cyclothialidine up to 100 micrograms/ml showed no effect on DNA gyrase when linear DNA was used as a substrate. Under the same conditions, quinolones, which inhibit the resealing reaction of DNA gyrase, caused a decrease in the amount of linear DNA used. No effect of cyclothialidine was observed on the accumulation of the covalent complex of DNA and the A subunit of DNA gyrase induced by ofloxacin in the absence of ATP. The effect of cyclothialidine on the DNA supercoiling reaction was antagonized by ATP, reducing the inhibitory activity 11-fold as the ATP concentration was increased from 0.5 to 5 mM. Cyclothialidine competitively inhibited the ATPase activity of DNA gyrase (Ki = 6 nM). The binding of [14C]benzoyl-cyclothialidine to E. coli gyrase was inhibited by ATP and novobiocin, but not by ofloxacin. These results suggest that cyclothialidine acts by interfering with the ATPase activity of the B subunit of DNA gyrase. Cyclothialidine was active against a DNA gyrase resistant to novobiocin, suggesting that its precise site of action might be different from that of novobiocin.
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PMID:Mechanism of inhibition of DNA gyrase by cyclothialidine, a novel DNA gyrase inhibitor. 781 Oct 4

Homologous recombination is a fundamental biological process. Biochemical understanding of this process is most advanced for Escherichia coli. At least 25 gene products are involved in promoting genetic exchange. At present, this includes the RecA, RecBCD (exonuclease V), RecE (exonuclease VIII), RecF, RecG, RecJ, RecN, RecOR, RecQ, RecT, RuvAB, RuvC, SbcCD, and SSB proteins, as well as DNA polymerase I, DNA gyrase, DNA topoisomerase I, DNA ligase, and DNA helicases. The activities displayed by these enzymes include homologous DNA pairing and strand exchange, helicase, branch migration, Holliday junction binding and cleavage, nuclease, ATPase, topoisomerase, DNA binding, ATP binding, polymerase, and ligase, and, collectively, they define biochemical events that are essential for efficient recombination. In addition to these needed proteins, a cis-acting recombination hot spot known as Chi (chi: 5'-GCTGGTGG-3') plays a crucial regulatory function. The biochemical steps that comprise homologous recombination can be formally divided into four parts: (i) processing of DNA molecules into suitable recombination substrates, (ii) homologous pairing of the DNA partners and the exchange of DNA strands, (iii) extension of the nascent DNA heteroduplex; and (iv) resolution of the resulting crossover structure. This review focuses on the biochemical mechanisms underlying these steps, with particular emphases on the activities of the proteins involved and on the integration of these activities into likely biochemical pathways for recombination.
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PMID:Biochemistry of homologous recombination in Escherichia coli. 796 21

Reverse gyrase, an ATP-dependent topoisomerase that positively supercoils DNA, has been purified to near-homogeneity from the hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri. It migrates on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as two principal bands with apparent molecular masses of 150 and 50 kDa. Both proteins remain associated throughout all chromatographic steps. Transfer of a radioactive phosphate from DNA to the 50-kDa protein and gel retardation experiments indicate that this protein forms the covalent complex with DNA. A blot overlay assay identifies the 150-kDa protein as the potential ATPase. This is the first evidence that a reverse gyrase can be a topoisomerase consisting of two protomers. In analogy with the DNA gyrase A subunit (DNA breakage and reunion activity) and the B subunit (ATPase), the 50- and 150-kDa components of Mka reverse gyrase have been designated the A and B subunits, respectively. Methanopyrus reverse gyrase changes DNA linking number in steps of one and its A subunit covalently binds to the 5'-DNA phosphoryl group. It nicks DNA at sites that predominantly have a cytosine at the -4-position. The same rule was derived previously for monomeric reverse gyrase from sulfur-metabolizing hyperthermophiles and for topoisomerase I from mesophilic bacteria. Based on these results, Mka reverse gyrase is classified as belonging to group A of type I topoisomerases. The structural diversity of type I group A topoisomerases parallels the diversity of type II enzymes and suggests the evolution of an essential function by gene fusion.
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PMID:A reverse gyrase with an unusual structure. A type I DNA topoisomerase from the hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri is a two-subunit protein. 815 33

The coumarin group of antibiotics have as their target the bacterial enzyme DNA gyrase. The drugs bind to the B subunit of gyrase and inhibit DNA supercoiling by blocking the ATPase activity. Recent data show that the binding site for the drugs lies within the N-terminal part of the B protein, and individual amino acids involved in coumarin interaction are being identified. The mode of inhibition of the gyrase ATPase reaction by coumarins is unlikely to be simple competitive inhibition, and the drugs may act by stabilizing a conformation of the enzyme with low affinity for ATP.
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PMID:The interaction between coumarin drugs and DNA gyrase. 823 2


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