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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 27, Issue 18 3696-3701, Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press

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Hypersensitive substrate for ribonucleases

BR Kelemen, TA Klink, MA Behlke, SR Eubanks, PA Leland and RT Raines
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA.

A substrate for a hypersensitive assay of ribonucleolytic activity was developed in a systematic manner. This substrate is based on the fluorescence quenching of fluorescein held in proximity to rhodamine by a single ribonucleotide embedded within a series of deoxynucleotides. When the substrate is cleaved, the fluorescence of fluorescein is manifested. The optimal substrate is a tetranucleotide with a 5',6- carboxyfluorescein label (6-FAM) and a 3',6-carboxy- tetramethylrhodamine (6-TAMRA) label: 6-FAM-dArUdAdA-6-TAMRA. The fluorescence of this substrate increases 180-fold upon cleavage. Bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A) cleaves this substrate with a k (cat)/ K (m)of 3.6 x 10(7)M(-1)s(-1). Human angiogenin, which is a homolog of RNase A that promotes neovascularization, cleaves this substrate with a k (cat)/ K (m)of 3. 3 x 10(2)M(-1)s(-1). This value is >10-fold larger than that for other known substrates of angio-genin. With these attributes, 6-FAM-dArUdAdA-6-TAMRA is the most sensitive known substrate for detecting ribo-nucleolytic activity. This high sensitivity enables a simple protocol for the rapid determination of the inhibition constant ( K (i)) for competitive inhibitors such as uridine 3'-phosphate and adenosine 5'-diphos-phate.
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