Nucleic Acids Research, 1980, Vol. 8, No. 6 1373-1382
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Endonucleases for UV-irradiated and depurinated DNA in barley chloroplasts
í Velemínsk
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vachulová
atavaInstitute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 160 00 Praha 6, Flemingovo 2, Czechoslovakia
Received February 14, 1980. Lysates of barley chloroplasts release more radioactivity into acid soluble form from UV-irradiated and alkylated-depurinated E. coli [3H] DNA than from intact DNA. By means of affinity chromatography on depurinated DNA-cellulose and/or UV irradiated DNA-cellulose and by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels, four activities on depurinated DNA were separated. One of these contained activity against heavily UV-irradiated /270 J.m2/ native DNA. In addition, two other nucleases specific towards UV-DNA were separated. One of them was active on native and heat denatured DNA irradiated with 10 J . m2 UV, whereas the other was predominantly active on native UV-irradiated DNA.