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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 16 7855-7865
© 1988

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Incision of damaged versus nondamaged DNA by the Escherichia coli UvrABC proteins

Paul R. Caron* and Lawrence Grossman

Department of Biochemistiy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

* Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Received May 20, 1988. Revised July 18, 1988. Accepted July 18, 1988.

Incision of damaged DNA by the Escherichia coli UvrABC endonuclease requires the UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins as well as ATP hydrolysis. This incision reaction can be divided into three steps: site recognition, preincision complex formation, and incision. UvrAB is able to execute the first two steps in the reaction while the addition of UvrC is required for the incision of DNA. This incision reaction does not require ATP hydrolysis and results in the formation of a tight UvrABC post-incision complex and the generation of an oligomer of approximately 12 nucleotides. At high UvrABC concentrations the specificity of the incision for damaged DNA is decreased and significant incision of undamaged DNA occurs. Analogous to damage specific incision, this type of incision leads to generation of an oligonucleotide, but in this case the size is approximately 9 nucleotides in length. Further evidence shows that the combination of UvrB and UvrC proteins can generate a significant amount of a similar size product on undamaged DNA. In addition, the UvrC protein alone can generate a small amount of the same product. Immunological characterization of the weak nuclease activity seen with UvrC indicates that the activity is very tightly associated with the purified UvrC protein.


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