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Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 18 3674-3683
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Eukaryotic ribonucleases HI and HII generate characteristic hydrolytic patterns on DNA–RNA hybrids: further evidence that mitochondrial RNase H is an RNase HII

Frédéric Pileur, Jean-Jacques Toulme and Christian Cazenave*

INSERM U386, IFR Pathologies Infectieuses, Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux II, 143 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux cédex, France

RNase H activities from HeLa cells (either of cytoplasmic or mitochondrial origin), and from mitochondria of beef heart and Xenopus ovaries, have been tested with RNA–DNA substrates of defined length (20 bp) and sequence. Substrates were either blunt-ended, or presented DNA or RNA overhangs. The hydrolysis profiles obtained at early times of the digestion showed a good correlation between the class of RNase H, either type I or II assigned according to biochemical parameters, whatever the organism. Consequently, the pattern of primary cuts can be considered as a signature of the predominant RNase H activity. For a given sequence, hydrolysis profiles obtained are similar, if not identical, for either blunt-ended substrates or those presenting overhangs. However, profiles showed variations depending on the sequence used. Of the three sequences tested, one appears very discriminatory, class I RNases H generating a unique primary cut 3 nt from the 3' end of the RNA strand, whereas class II RNases H generated two simultaneous primary cuts at 6 and at 8 nt from the 5' end of the RNA strand. Hydrolysis profiles further confirm the assignation of the mitochondrial RNase H activity from HeLa cells, beef heart and Xenopus oocytes to the class II.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +33 5 57 57 10 14; Fax: +33 5 57 57 10 15; Email: christian.cazenave@bordeaux.inserm.fr


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