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Nucleic Acids Research, 1987, Vol. 15, No. 21 8755-8771
© 1987

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Nicks 3' or 5' to AP sites or to mispaired bases, and one-nucleotide gaps can be sealed by T4 DNA ligase

Colette Goffin, Véronique Bailly and Walter G. Verly

Laboratoire de Biochimie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Liège Sart Tilman B6, 4000 Liège I, Belgium

Received July 22, 1987. Revised October 1, 1987. Accepted October 1, 1987.

Using synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides with 3'-OH ends and 32P-labelled 5'-phosphate ends and the technique of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it is shown that, in the presence of the complementary polynucleotide, an AP (apurinic or apyrimidinic) site at the 3' or the 5' end of the labelled oligodeoxynucleotides does not prevent their ligation by T4 DNA ligase, although the reaction rate is decreased. This decrease is more severe when the AP site is at the 3' end; the activated intermediates accumulate showing that it is the efficiency of the adenyl-5'-phosphate attack by the 3'-OH of the base-free deoxyribose which is mostly perturbed.

Using the same technique, it is shown that a mispaired base at the 3' or 5' end of oligodeoxynucleotides does not prevent their ligation. A one-nucleotide gap, limited by 3'-OH and 5'-phosphate, can also be closed by T4 DNA ligase although with difficulty; here again the activation of the 5'-phosphate end does not seem to be slowed down, but rather the 3' -OH attack of the adenyl-5'-phosphate.

All these anomalous ligations take place with the nick or the gap in front of a continuous complementary strand. Blunt ends ligation of correct duplexes occurs readily; however an AP site or a mispaired base at the 3' or 5' end of one strand of the duplexes prevents ligation between these strands. But a missing nucleotide (responsible for one unpaired nucleotide protruding a t the 3' or 5' end of the complementary strand) does not stop ligation of the shorter oligodeoxynucleotides between independent duplexes.


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