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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 23 11157-11170
© 1988

ENZYMOLOGY

Topoisomerase I Interaction with SV4O DNA in the presence and absence of camptothecin

Christine Jaxel, Kurt W. Kohn and Pommier Yves*

Laboratory of Molecular Pharnmcology, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

*To whom reprint requests should be addressed at BLDG 37, RN 5A19. Phone: (301)-496-5944

Received August 23, 1988. Revised November 3, 1988. Accepted November 3, 1988.

Camptothecin is an antitumor drug, which is a specific inhibitor of eukaryotic topoisomerase I. Enzyme inhibition is related to the stabilization of cleavable complexes between topoisomerase I and DNA. The genomic and DNA sequence localization of L1210 topoisomerase I-mediated DNA breaks produced by camptothecin were determined in the SV4O genome. DNA cleavage was predominantly single-stranded and localized in selective regions of the DNA. A major cleavage site was found at nucleotide 4955 on the coding strand in the early transcription region. The DNA sequence was determined at prominent cleavage sites (nucleotides 127 and 199 in the two 72 bp repeats and nucleotide 4955). A DNA consensus sequence 5'-GATG-3' was found in SV4O DNA. Cleavage occured between the T and the G and topoisomerase I was linked to the 3'-DNA terminus at the T position. The sequence GATG is more frequent in the non transcribed strand of the early and late transcription of SV4O than in the transcribed strands. This finding is consistent with the role of topoiscrerase I in transcription.


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