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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 14 6477-6492
© 1988

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Bent DNA structures associated with several origins of replication are recognized by a unique enzyme from trypanosomatids

Michal Linial and Joseph Shlomai

The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem, Israel

Received March 3, 1988. Sequence-directed bending of the DNA double helix is a conformational variation found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The utilization of bent DNA structures from various sources as specific signals recognized by an enzyme is demonstrated here using a unique endonuclease purified from trypanosomatid cells. Crithidia fasciculata nicking enzyme was previously shown to recognize specifically the bent structure found in kinetoplast DNA minicircles. The binding constant measured for this specific interaction is of two orders of magnitude higher than that measured for the binding of the enzyme to a non-curved sequence. As determined by binding competition and mobility shift electrophoresis analyses, this enzyme recognizes the sequence-directed bends associated with the origins of replication of bacteriophage {lambda} and simian virus 40 (SV40), as well as that located within the autonomously replicating sequence (ARSl) region of the yeast S. cerevisiae.


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