Archaebacterial DNA polymerases tightly bind uracil-containing DNA |
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Authors: | RS Lasken DM Schuster A Rashtchian |
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Affiliation: | Life Technologies, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland 20884-9980, USA. |
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Abstract: | We show that archaebacterial DNA polymerases are strongly inhibited by the presence of small amounts of uracil-containing DNA. Inhibition appears to be competitive, with the DNA polymerase exhibiting approximately 6500-fold greater affinity for binding the inhibitor than a DNase I-activated DNA substrate. All six archaebacterial DNA polymerases tested were inhibited, while no eubacterial, eukaryotic, or bacteriophage enzymes showed this effect. Only a small inhibition resulted when uracil was present as the deoxynucleoside triphosphate, dUTP. The rate of DNA synthesis was reduced by approximately 40% when dUTP was used in place of dTTP for archaebacterial DNA polymerases. Furthermore, an incorporated dUMP served as a productive 3'-primer terminus for subsequent elongation. In contrast, the presence of an oligonucleotide containing as little as a single dUrd residue was extremely inhibitory to DNA polymerase activity on other primer-template DNA. |
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