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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 26, Issue 10 2380-2384, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press

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Step-wise DNA relaxation and decatenation by NaeI-43K

K Jo and MD Topal
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 7295, USA.

Nae I protein was originally isolated for its restriction endonuclease properties. Nae I was later discovered to either relax or cleave supercoiled DNA, depending upon whether Nae I position 43 contains a lysine (43K) or leucine (43L) respectively. Nae I-43K DNA relaxation activity appears to be the product of coupling separate endonuclease and ligase domains within the same polypeptide. Whereas Nae I relaxes supercoiled DNA like a topoisomerase, even forming a transient covalent intermediate with the substrate DNA, Nae I shows no obvious sequence similarity to the topoisomerases. To further characterize the topoisomerase activity of Nae I, we report here that Nae I-43K changes the linking number of a single negatively supercoiled topoisomer of pBR322 by units of one and therefore is a type I topoisomerase. Positively supercoiled pBR322 was resistant to Nae I-43K. At low salt concentration Nae I-43K was processive; non-saturating amounts of enzyme relaxed a fraction of the DNA. At high salt concentration the same non-saturating amounts of Nae I-43K partially relaxed all the DNA in a step-wise fashion to give a Gaussian distribution of topoisomers, demonstrating a switch from a processive to a distributive mode of action. Nae I-43K decatenated kinetoplast DNA containing nicked circles, implying that Nae I-43K can cleave opposite a nick. The products of the reaction are decatenated nicked circles under both processive and distributive conditions. The behavior of Nae I-43K is consistent with that of a prokaryotic type I topoisomerase.
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