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Yu X, Zhang S, Guo W, Li B, Yang Y, Xie B, Li K, Zhang L. Recent Advances on Functional Nucleic-Acid Biosensors. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 21:7109. [PMID: 34770415 PMCID: PMC8587875 DOI: 10.3390/s21217109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In the past few decades, biosensors have been gradually developed for the rapid detection and monitoring of human diseases. Recently, functional nucleic-acid (FNA) biosensors have attracted the attention of scholars due to a series of advantages such as high stability and strong specificity, as well as the significant progress they have made in terms of biomedical applications. However, there are few reports that systematically and comprehensively summarize its working principles, classification and application. In this review, we primarily introduce functional modes of biosensors that combine functional nucleic acids with different signal output modes. In addition, the mechanisms of action of several media of the FNA biosensor are introduced. Finally, the practical application and existing problems of FNA sensors are discussed, and the future development directions and application prospects of functional nucleic acid sensors are prospected.
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- Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.Y.); (S.Z.); (W.G.); (B.L.); (Y.Y.); (B.X.); (K.L.)
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Biernacka A, Skrzypczak M, Zhu Y, Pasero P, Rowicka M, Ginalski K. High-resolution, ultrasensitive and quantitative DNA double-strand break labeling in eukaryotic cells using i-BLESS. Nat Protoc 2021; 16:1034-1061. [PMID: 33349705 PMCID: PMC8088906 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-00448-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are implicated in various physiological processes, such as class-switch recombination or crossing-over during meiosis, but also present a threat to genome stability. Extensive evidence shows that DSBs are a primary source of chromosome translocations or deletions, making them a major cause of genomic instability, a driving force of many diseases of civilization, such as cancer. Therefore, there is a great need for a precise, sensitive, and universal method for DSB detection, to enable both the study of their mechanisms of formation and repair as well as to explore their therapeutic potential. We provide a detailed protocol for our recently developed ultrasensitive and genome-wide DSB detection method: immobilized direct in situ breaks labeling, enrichment on streptavidin and next-generation sequencing (i-BLESS), which relies on the encapsulation of cells in agarose beads and labeling breaks directly and specifically with biotinylated linkers. i-BLESS labels DSBs with single-nucleotide resolution, allows detection of ultrarare breaks, takes 5 d to complete, and can be applied to samples from any organism, as long as a sufficient amount of starting material can be obtained. We also describe how to combine i-BLESS with our qDSB-Seq approach to enable the measurement of absolute DSB frequencies per cell and their precise genomic coordinates at the same time. Such normalization using qDSB-Seq is especially useful for the evaluation of spontaneous DSB levels and the estimation of DNA damage induced rather uniformly in the genome (e.g., by irradiation or radiomimetic chemotherapeutics).
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- Anna Biernacka
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
- Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
- Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
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Cofsky JC, Karandur D, Huang CJ, Witte IP, Kuriyan J, Doudna JA. CRISPR-Cas12a exploits R-loop asymmetry to form double-strand breaks. eLife 2020; 9:e55143. [PMID: 32519675 PMCID: PMC7286691 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Type V CRISPR-Cas interference proteins use a single RuvC active site to make RNA-guided breaks in double-stranded DNA substrates, an activity essential for both bacterial immunity and genome editing. The best-studied of these enzymes, Cas12a, initiates DNA cutting by forming a 20-nucleotide R-loop in which the guide RNA displaces one strand of a double-helical DNA substrate, positioning the DNase active site for first-strand cleavage. However, crystal structures and biochemical data have not explained how the second strand is cut to complete the double-strand break. Here, we detect intrinsic instability in DNA flanking the RNA-3' side of R-loops, which Cas12a can exploit to expose second-strand DNA for cutting. Interestingly, DNA flanking the RNA-5' side of R-loops is not intrinsically unstable. This asymmetry in R-loop structure may explain the uniformity of guide RNA architecture and the single-active-site cleavage mechanism that are fundamental features of all type V CRISPR-Cas systems.
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- Joshua C Cofsky
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- MBIB Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- MBIB Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeleyUnited States
- Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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Gao T, Chen T, Feng C, He X, Mu C, Anzai JI, Li G. Design and fabrication of flexible DNA polymer cocoons to encapsulate live cells. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2946. [PMID: 31270421 PMCID: PMC6610073 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10845-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The capability to encapsulate designated live cells into a biologically and mechanically tunable polymer layer is in high demand. Here, an approach to weave functional DNA polymer cocoons has been proposed as an encapsulation method. By developing in situ DNA-oriented polymerization (isDOP), we demonstrate a localized, programmable, and biocompatible encapsulation approach to graft DNA polymers onto live cells. Further guided by two mutually aided enzymatic reactions, the grafted DNA polymers are assembled into DNA polymer cocoons at the cell surface. Therefore, the coating of bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells has been achieved. The capabilities of this approach may offer significant opportunities to engineer cell surfaces and enable the precise manipulation of the encapsulated cells, such as encoding, handling, and sorting, for many biomedical applications.
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- Tao Gao
- Center for Molecular Recognition and Biosensing, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, P.R. China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 210023, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Center for Molecular Recognition and Biosensing, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 210023, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 210023, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Center for Molecular Recognition and Biosensing, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, P.R. China.
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 210023, Nanjing, P.R. China.
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Lai Y, Weizmann Y, Liu Y. The deoxyribose phosphate lyase of DNA polymerase β suppresses a processive DNA synthesis to prevent trinucleotide repeat instability. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:8940-8952. [PMID: 30085293 PMCID: PMC6158618 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) instability is associated with over 42 neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, for which the molecular mechanisms remain to be elucidated. We have shown that the DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway and its central component, DNA polymerase β (pol β), in particular, its polymerase activity plays an active role in regulating somatic TNR instability. Herein, we revealed a unique role of the pol β dRP lyase in preventing somatic TNR instability. We found that deficiency of pol β deoxyribose phosphate (dRP) lyase activity locked the pol β dRP lyase domain to a dRP group, and this ‘tethered’ pol β to its template forcing the polymerase to perform a processive DNA synthesis. This subsequently promoted DNA strand slippage allowing pol β to skip over a template loop and causing TNR deletion. We showed that the effects were eliminated by complementation of the dRP lyase deficiency with wild-type pol β protein. The results indicate that pol β dRP lyase activity restrained the pol β-dRP interaction to suppress a pol β processive DNA synthesis, thereby preventing TNR deletion. This further implicates a potential of pol β dRP lyase inhibition as a novel treatment of TNR-expansion diseases.
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- Yanhao Lai
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA.,Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA.,Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Biernacka A, Zhu Y, Skrzypczak M, Forey R, Pardo B, Grzelak M, Nde J, Mitra A, Kudlicki A, Crosetto N, Pasero P, Rowicka M, Ginalski K. i-BLESS is an ultra-sensitive method for detection of DNA double-strand breaks. Commun Biol 2018; 1:181. [PMID: 30393778 PMCID: PMC6208412 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0165-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Maintenance of genome stability is a key issue for cell fate that could be compromised by chromosome deletions and translocations caused by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Thus development of precise and sensitive tools for DSBs labeling is of great importance for understanding mechanisms of DSB formation, their sensing and repair. Until now there has been no high resolution and specific DSB detection technique that would be applicable to any cells regardless of their size. Here, we present i-BLESS, a universal method for direct genome-wide DNA double-strand break labeling in cells immobilized in agarose beads. i-BLESS has three key advantages: it is the only unbiased method applicable to yeast, achieves a sensitivity of one break at a given position in 100,000 cells, and eliminates background noise while still allowing for fixation of samples. The method allows detection of ultra-rare breaks such as those forming spontaneously at G-quadruplexes. Anna Biernacka, Yingjie Zhu et al. present i-BLESS, a universal method for detecting genome-wide DNA double strand breaks, optimized here for yeast. By immobilizing cells on agarose beads, the authors are able to achieve efficient diffusion of reagents and labeling of double strand breaks, including ultra-rare breaks such as those at G-quadruplexes.
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- Anna Biernacka
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34396, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34396, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE-17165, Sweden
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34396, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland.
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Herein, we report a carbazole (Cz) ligand that displays distinct turn-on fluorescence signals upon interaction with human telomeric G-quadruplex ( h-TELO) and nuclease enzymes. Interestingly, Cz selectively binds and stabilizes the mixed hybrid topology of h-TELO G-quadruplex that withstands digestion by exonucleases and nuclease S1. The distinct fluorescence signatures of Cz-stabilized h-TELO with nucleases are used to design conceptually novel DNA devices for selectively detecting the enzymatic activity of DNase I as well as performing logic operations. An INHIBIT logic gate is constructed using h-TELO and DNase I as the inputs while the inputs of h-TELO and nuclease S1 form a YES logic gate. Furthermore, a two-input two-output reusable logic device with "multireset" function is developed by using h-TELO and DNase I as inputs. On the basis of this platform, combinatorial logic systems (INHIBIT-INHIBIT and NOR-OR) have been successfully installed using different combinations of nucleases as inputs. Moreover, this new strategy of using a synthetic dual emissive probe and enzyme/DNA inputs for constructing reusable logic device may find important applications in biological computing and information processing.
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- Manish Debnath
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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Koval T, Dohnálek J. Characteristics and application of S1–P1 nucleases in biotechnology and medicine. Biotechnol Adv 2018; 36:603-612. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Ma DL, Wang W, Mao Z, Yang C, Chen XP, Lu JJ, Han QB, Leung CH. A tutorial review for employing enzymes for the construction of G-quadruplex-based sensing platforms. Anal Chim Acta 2016; 913:41-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2016.01.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Revised: 01/11/2016] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Yuan P, Ma R, Gao N, Garai M, Xu QH. Plasmon coupling-enhanced two-photon photoluminescence of Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles and applications in the nuclease assay. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:10233-9. [PMID: 25990464 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr01409c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Au and Ag nanoparticles (NPs) have been known to display significantly enhanced two-photon photoluminescence (2PPL) upon the formation of nanoparticle aggregates. The enhancement effect of the core-shell nanoparticles has not been explored so far. Here we have prepared Au@Ag bimetallic core-shell nanoparticles with different thicknesses (1.1, 2.1, 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 nm) of silver coating on 19 nm Au NPs to investigate the composition effects on plasmon coupling-enhanced 2PPL. A maximum 2PPL enhancement factor (IcoupledNPs/IisolatedNPs) of up to 840-fold was obtained for Au@Ag NPs with ∼3.5 nm Ag nanoshells. These Au@Ag NPs were subsequently utilized in two-photon detection of S1 nuclease as a photoluminescence turn on probe. This method displayed high sensitivity with the limit of detection of 1.4 × 10(-6) U μL(-1) and an excellent selectivity.
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- Peiyan Yuan
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543.
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Xu M, Lai Y, Jiang Z, Terzidis MA, Masi A, Chatgilialoglu C, Liu Y. A 5', 8-cyclo-2'-deoxypurine lesion induces trinucleotide repeat deletion via a unique lesion bypass by DNA polymerase β. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:13749-63. [PMID: 25428354 PMCID: PMC4267656 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxypurines (cdPus) are common forms of oxidized DNA lesions resulting from endogenous and environmental oxidative stress such as ionizing radiation. The lesions can only be repaired by nucleotide excision repair with a low efficiency. This results in their accumulation in the genome that leads to stalling of the replication DNA polymerases and poor lesion bypass by translesion DNA polymerases. Trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) consist of tandem repeats of Gs and As and therefore are hotspots of cdPus. In this study, we provided the first evidence that both (5'R)- and (5'S)-5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (cdA) in a CAG repeat tract caused CTG repeat deletion exclusively during DNA lagging strand maturation and base excision repair. We found that a cdA induced the formation of a CAG loop in the template strand, which was skipped over by DNA polymerase β (pol β) lesion bypass synthesis. This subsequently resulted in the formation of a long flap that was efficiently cleaved by flap endonuclease 1, thereby leading to repeat deletion. Our study indicates that accumulation of cdPus in the human genome can lead to TNR instability via a unique lesion bypass by pol β.
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- Meng Xu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW, 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW, 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW, 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, N.C.S.R. 'Demokritos', 15341 Agia, Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW, 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA Biomolecular Sciences Institute, School of Integrated Sciences and Humanities, Florida International University, 11200 SW, 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Wang L, Ma K, Zhang Y. Label-free fluorometric detection of S1 nuclease activity by using polycytosine oligonucleotide-templated silver nanoclusters. Anal Biochem 2014; 468:34-8. [PMID: 25263815 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2014.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Revised: 09/09/2014] [Accepted: 09/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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S1 nuclease has an important function in DNA transcription, replication, recombination, and repair. A label-free fluorescent method for the detection of S1 nuclease activity has been developed using polycytosine oligonucleotide-templated silver nanoclusters (dC12-Ag NCs). In this assay, dC12 can function as both the template for the stabilization of Ag NCs and the substrate of the S1 nuclease. Fluorescent Ag NCs could be effectively formed using dC12 as the template without S1 nuclease. In the presence of S1 nuclease, dC12 is degraded to mono- or oligonucleotide fragments, thereby resulting in a reduction in fluorescence. S1 nuclease with an activity as low as 5×10(-8)Uμl(-1) (signal/noise=3) can be determined with a linear range of 5×10(-7) to 1×10(-3)Uμl(-1). The promising application of the proposed method in S1 nuclease inhibitor screening has been demonstrated using pyrophosphate as the model inhibitor. Furthermore, the S1 nuclease concentrations in RPMI 1640 cell medium were validated. The developed method for S1 nuclease is sensitive and facile because its operation does not require any complicated DNA labeling or laborious fluorescent dye synthesis.
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- Lihui Wang
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China; Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China; Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China; Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China.
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He Y, Jiao B. An ultrasensitive fluorometric platform for S1 nuclease assay based on cytochrome c. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra05088f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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An ultrasensitive and straightforward fluorescent sensing platform for S1 nuclease activity has been developed based on cytochrome c.
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- Yue He
- Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products (Chongqing)
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Citrus Research Institute
- Southwest University
- Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products (Chongqing)
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Citrus Research Institute
- Southwest University
- Chongqing, China
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He Y, Jiao B, Tang H. Interaction of single-stranded DNA with graphene oxide: fluorescence study and its application for S1 nuclease detection. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01102c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The mechanism for short ssDNA having weaker affinity to graphene oxide than long ssDNA was systematically investigated.
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- Yue He
- Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products (Chongqing)
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Citrus Research Institute
- Southwest University
- Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Citrus Products (Chongqing)
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Citrus Research Institute
- Southwest University
- Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education)
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Research Center for Nanobiology and Nanomedicine (MOE 985 Innovative Platform)
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan, China
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Guo K, Bu Y, Takano T, Liu S, Zhang X. Arabidopsis cysteine proteinase inhibitor AtCYSb interacts with a Ca(2+)-dependent nuclease, AtCaN2. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:3417-21. [PMID: 24076026 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2013] [Revised: 08/31/2013] [Accepted: 09/10/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Plant cysteine proteinase inhibitors (cystatins) play important roles in plant defense mechanisms. Some proteins that interact with cystatins may defend against abiotic stresses. Here, we showed that AtCaN2, a Ca(2+)-dependent nuclease in Arabidopsis, is transcribed in senescent leaves and stems and interacts with an Arabidopsis cystatin (AtCYSb) in a yeast two-hybrid screen. The interaction between AtCYSb and AtCaN2 was confirmed by in vitro pull-down assay and bimolecular fluorescence complementation. Agarose gel electrophoresis showed that the nuclease activity of AtCaN2 against λDNA was inhibited by AtCYSb, which suggests that AtCYSb regulates nucleic acid degradation in cells.
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- Kunyuan Guo
- Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field (SAVER), Ministry of Education, Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center (ASNESC), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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Zhou Z, Zhu J, Zhang L, Du Y, Dong S, Wang E. G-quadruplex-Based Fluorescent Assay of S1 Nuclease Activity and K+. Anal Chem 2013; 85:2431-5. [DOI: 10.1021/ac303440d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Zhixue Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of
Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
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Cao R, Li B, Zhang Y, Zhang Z. Naked-eye sensitive detection of nuclease activity using positively-charged gold nanoparticles as colorimetric probes. Chem Commun (Camb) 2011; 47:12301-3. [PMID: 22005652 DOI: 10.1039/c1cc15994a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Positively-charged gold nanoparticles can effectively differentiate long DNA and fragmented DNA, thus providing a simple and visual approach to colorimetric detection of nuclease activity.
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- Rui Cao
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
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Ruhanen H, Ushakov K, Yasukawa T. Involvement of DNA ligase III and ribonuclease H1 in mitochondrial DNA replication in cultured human cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2011; 1813:2000-7. [PMID: 21878356 PMCID: PMC3223524 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2011.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2011] [Revised: 07/29/2011] [Accepted: 08/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Recent evidence suggests that coupled leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis operates in mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication, but the factors involved in lagging strand synthesis are largely uncharacterised. We investigated the effect of knockdown of the candidate proteins in cultured human cells under conditions where mtDNA appears to replicate chiefly via coupled leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis to restore the copy number of mtDNA to normal levels after transient mtDNA depletion. DNA ligase III knockdown attenuated the recovery of mtDNA copy number and appeared to cause single strand nicks in replicating mtDNA molecules, suggesting the involvement of DNA ligase III in Okazaki fragment ligation in human mitochondria. Knockdown of ribonuclease (RNase) H1 completely prevented the mtDNA copy number restoration, and replication intermediates with increased single strand nicks were readily observed. On the other hand, knockdown of neither flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) nor DNA2 affected mtDNA replication. These findings imply that RNase H1 is indispensable for the progression of mtDNA synthesis through removing RNA primers from Okazaki fragments. In the nucleus, Okazaki fragments are ligated by DNA ligase I, and the RNase H2 is involved in Okazaki fragment processing. This study thus proposes that the mitochondrial replication system utilises distinct proteins, DNA ligase III and RNase H1, for Okazaki fragment maturation.
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- Heini Ruhanen
- The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London, UK
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Selection of fecal enterococci exhibiting tcrB-mediated copper resistance in pigs fed diets supplemented with copper. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:5597-603. [PMID: 21705534 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00364-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Copper, as copper sulfate, is increasingly used as an alternative to in-feed antibiotics for growth promotion in weaned piglets. Acquired copper resistance, conferred by a plasmid-borne, transferable copper resistance (tcrB) gene, has been reported in Enterococcus faecium and E. faecalis. A longitudinal field study was undertaken to determine the relationship between copper supplementation and the prevalence of tcrB-positive enterococci in piglets. The study was done with weaned piglets, housed in 10 pens with 6 piglets per pen, fed diets supplemented with a normal (16.5 ppm; control) or an elevated (125 ppm) level of copper. Fecal samples were randomly collected from three piglets per pen on days 0, 14, 28, and 42 and plated on M-Enterococcus agar, and three enterococcal isolates were obtained from each sample. The overall prevalence of tcrB-positive enterococci was 21.1% (38/180) in piglets fed elevated copper and 2.8% (5/180) in the control. Among the 43 tcrB-positive isolates, 35 were E. faecium and 8 were E. faecalis. The mean MICs of copper for tcrB-negative and tcrB-positive enterococci were 6.2 and 22.2 mM, respectively. The restriction digestion of the genomic DNA of E. faecium or E. faecalis with S1 nuclease yielded a band of ∼194-kbp size to which both tcrB and the erm(B) gene probes hybridized. A conjugation assay demonstrated cotransfer of tcrB and erm(B) genes between E. faecium and E. faecalis strains. The higher prevalence of tcrB-positive enterococci in piglets fed elevated copper compared to that in piglets fed normal copper suggests that supplementation of copper in swine diets selected for resistance.
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Tullman J, Guntas G, Dumont M, Ostermeier M. Protein switches identified from diverse insertion libraries created using S1 nuclease digestion of supercoiled-form plasmid DNA. Biotechnol Bioeng 2011; 108:2535-43. [PMID: 21618478 DOI: 10.1002/bit.23224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2011] [Revised: 04/26/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We demonstrate that S1 nuclease converts supercoiled plasmid DNA to unit-length, linear dsDNA through the creation of a single, double-stranded break in a plasmid molecule. These double-stranded breaks occur not only in the origin of replication near inverted repeats but also at a wide variety of locations throughout the plasmid. S1 nuclease exhibits this activity under conditions typically employed for the nuclease's single-stranded nuclease activity. Thus, S1 nuclease digestion of plasmid DNA, unlike analogous digestion with DNaseI, effectively halts after the first double-stranded break. This property makes easier the construction of large domain insertion libraries in which the goal is to insert linear DNA at a variety of locations throughout a plasmid. We used this property to create a library in which a circularly permuted TEM1 β-lactamase gene was inserted throughout a plasmid containing the gene encoding Escherichia coli ribose binding protein. Gene fusions that encode allosteric switch proteins in which ribose modulates β-lactamase catalytic activity were isolated from this library using a combination of a genetic selection and a screen.
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- Jennifer Tullman
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Podzimek T, Matoušek J, Lipovová P, Poučková P, Spiwok V, Santrůček J. Biochemical properties of three plant nucleases with anticancer potential. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 180:343-51. [PMID: 21421379 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2010] [Revised: 09/15/2010] [Accepted: 10/08/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Biochemical and structural properties of three recombinant (R), highly homologous, plant bifunctional nucleases from tomato (R-TBN1), hop (R-HBN1) and Arabis brassica (R-ABN1) were determined. These nucleases cleave single- and double-stranded substrates, as well as both RNA and DNA with nearly the same efficiency. In addition, they are able to cleave several artificial substrates and highly stable viroid RNA. They also possess 3'-nucleotidase activity; therefore, they can be classified as nuclease I family members. Interestingly, poly(G) is resistant to cleavage and moreover it inhibits dsDNase, ssDNase and RNase activity of the studied nucleases. All three nucleases exhibit zinc-dependence and a strong stimulatory effect of Zn²+ for dsDNA cleavage. 3-D models, predicted on the basis of experimental structure of P1 nuclease, show nine amino acid residues responsible for interactions with zinc atoms, located in the same positions as in P1 nuclease. It was also shown that R-TBN1, R-HBN1, and R-ABN1 are all N-glycosylated. Oligosaccharidic chains constitute about 16% of their MW. In addition, an anticancer potential of the R-ABN1 is compared in this work with previously tested R-TBN1, and R-HBN1. R-ABN1 injected intravenously showed 70% inhibitory effect on growth of human prostate carcinoma in athymic mice.
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- Tomáš Podzimek
- Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Technická 3, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic; Biology Centre, ASCR v.v.i., Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Branišovská 32, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Lim TS, Schütze T, Lehrach H, Glökler J, Konthur Z. Diversity visualization by endonuclease: a rapid assay to monitor diverse nucleotide libraries. Anal Biochem 2010; 411:16-21. [PMID: 21185254 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2010.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2010] [Revised: 12/15/2010] [Accepted: 12/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Many experiments require a fast and cost-effective method to monitor nucleic acid sequence diversity. Here we describe a method called diversity visualization by endonuclease (DiVE) that allows rapid visualization of sequence diversity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products based on DNA hybridization kinetics coupled with the activity of a single-strand specific nuclease. The assay involves only a limited number of steps and can be performed in less than 4h, including the initial PCR. After PCR, the homoduplex double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) is denatured and reannealed under stringent conditions. During the reannealing process, incubation with S1 nuclease removes single-stranded loops of formed heteroduplexes and the resulting digest is visualized on agarose gel. The sequence diversity is inversely proportional to the band intensities of S1 nuclease surviving dsDNA molecules of expected size. As an example, we employed DiVE to monitor the diversity of panning rounds from a single-framework, semisynthetic single-chain antibody fragment (scFv) phage display library. The results are in good agreement with the observed decrease in diversity in phage display panning rounds toward the selection of monoclonal scFv. We conclude that the DiVE assay allows rapid and cost-effective monitoring of diversities of various nucleotide libraries and proves to be particularly suitable for scaffold-based randomized libraries.
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- Theam Soon Lim
- Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Gonzalez-Perez I, Cayarga AA, Hernández YP, de la Rosa IG, González YJG, León CS, Álvarez RR. Long-term conservation of HCV RNA at 4°C using a new RNA stabilizing solution. J Virol Methods 2010; 168:207-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2010.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2009] [Revised: 05/13/2010] [Accepted: 05/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kubota T, Ikeda S, Yanagisawa H, Yuki M, Okamoto A. Hybridization-sensitive fluorescent probe for long-term monitoring of intracellular RNA. Bioconjug Chem 2009; 20:1256-61. [PMID: 19441821 DOI: 10.1021/bc900120a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Nuclease-resistant hybridization probes for long-term intracellular RNA imaging were synthesized. Newly designed probes with a 2'-O-MeRNA structure showed high resistance against nucleases, which is in contrast to the low resistance of DNA probes. These modified probes retained the function on the on-off switching of fluorescence emission in sensitive response to RNA recognition, based on the mechanism of interdye excitonic interaction, and functioned effectively for the long-term monitoring of RNA-stained living cells.
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- Takeshi Kubota
- Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama 351-1098, Japan
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Rittié L, Perbal B. Enzymes used in molecular biology: a useful guide. J Cell Commun Signal 2008; 2:25-45. [PMID: 18766469 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-008-0026-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2008] [Accepted: 08/13/2008] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Since molecular cloning has become routine laboratory technique, manufacturers offer countless sources of enzymes to generate and manipulate nucleic acids. Thus, selecting the appropriate enzyme for a specific task may seem difficult to the novice. This review aims at providing the readers with some cues for understanding the function and specificities of the different sources of polymerases, ligases, nucleases, phosphatases, methylases, and topoisomerases used for molecular cloning. We provide a description of the most commonly used enzymes of each group, and explain their properties and mechanism of action. By pointing out key requirements for each enzymatic activity and clarifying their limitations, we aim at guiding the reader in selecting appropriate enzymatic source and optimal experimental conditions for molecular cloning experiments.
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- Laure Rittié
- Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA,
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Peng Y, Li X, Ren J, Qu X. Single-walled carbon nanotubes binding to human telomeric i-motif DNA: significant acceleration of S1 nuclease cleavage rate. Chem Commun (Camb) 2007:5176-8. [PMID: 18060133 DOI: 10.1039/b710950d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) binding to human telomeric i-motif DNA can significantly accelerate S1 nuclease cleavage rate by increasing the enzyme turnover number.
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- Yinghua Peng
- Division of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Chemistry and Physics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China
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Deshmukh SS. Nuclease Stn alpha from Streptomyces thermonitrificans: characterization of the associated adenylic acid preferential ribonuclease activity. Curr Microbiol 2007; 54:186-9. [PMID: 17294331 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0020-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2006] [Accepted: 09/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Nuclease Stn alpha from Streptomyces thermonitrificans hydrolyses DNA and RNA at the rate of approximately 10:1. The optimum pH and temperature for RNA hydrolysis were 7.0 and 45 degrees C. The RNase activity of nuclease Stn alpha had neither an obligate requirement of metal ions nor was it activated in the presence of metal ions. The enzyme was inhibited by Zn2+, Mg2+, Co2+, and Ca2+; inorganic phosphate; pyrophosphate; NaCl; KCl; and metal chelators. It was stable at high concentrations of urea but susceptible to low concentrations of Sodium dodecyl sulfate and guanidine hydrochloride. The rates by which nuclease Stn alpha hydrolysed polyribonucleotides occurs in the order of poly A >> RNA >> poly U > poly G > poly C. The enzyme cleaved RNA to 3' mononucleotides with preferential liberation of 3'AMP, indicating it to be an adenylic acid preferential endonuclease.
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- S S Deshmukh
- Division of Biochemical Sciences, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India.
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Pimkin M, Miller CG, Blakesley L, Oleykowski CA, Kodali NS, Yeung AT. Characterization of a periplasmic S1-like nuclease coded by the Mesorhizobium loti symbiosis island. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 343:77-84. [PMID: 16529713 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2006] [Accepted: 02/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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DNA sequences encoding hypothetical proteins homologous to S1 nuclease from Aspergillus oryzae are found in many organisms including fungi, plants, pathogenic bacteria, and eukaryotic parasites. One of these is the M1 nuclease of Mesorhizobium loti which we demonstrate herein to be an enzymatically active, soluble, and stable S1 homolog that lacks the extensive mannosyl-glycosylation found in eukaryotic S1 nuclease homologs. We have expressed the cloned M1 protein in M. loti and purified recombinant native M1 to near homogeneity and have also isolated a homogeneous M1 carboxy-terminal hexahistidine tag fusion protein. Mass spectrometry and N-terminal Edman degradation sequencing confirmed the protein identity. The enzymatic properties of the purified M1 nuclease are similar to those of S1. At acidic pH M1 is 25 times more active on single-stranded DNA than on double-stranded DNA and 3 times more active on single-stranded DNA than on single-stranded RNA. At neutral pH the RNase activity of M1 exceeds the DNase activity. M1 nicks supercoiled RF-I plasmid DNA and rapidly cuts the phosphodiester bond across from the nick in the resultant relaxed RF-II plasmid DNA. Therefore, M1 represents an active bacterial S1 homolog in spite of great sequence divergence. The biochemical characterization of M1 nuclease supports our sequence alignment that reveals the minimal 21 amino acid residues that are necessarily conserved for the structure and functions of this enzyme family. The ability of M1 to degrade RNA at neutral pH implies previously unappreciated roles of these nucleases in biological systems.
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- Maxim Pimkin
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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Kim D, Rhee Y, Rhodes D, Sharma V, Sorenson O, Greener A, Smider V. Directed Evolution and Identification of Control Regions of ColE1 Plasmid Replication Origins Using Only Nucleotide Deletions. J Mol Biol 2005; 351:763-75. [PMID: 16051272 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2005] [Revised: 06/06/2005] [Accepted: 06/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Genes can be mutated by altering DNA content (base changes) or DNA length (insertions or deletions). Most in vitro directed evolution processes utilize nucleotide content changes to produce DNA libraries. We tested whether gain of function mutations could be identified using a mutagenic process that produced only nucleotide deletions. Short nucleotide stretches were deleted in a plasmid encoding lacZ, and screened for increased beta-galactosidase activity. Several mutations were found in the origin of replication that quantitatively and qualitatively altered plasmid behavior in vivo. Some mutations allowed co-residence of ColE1 plasmids in Escherichia coli, and implicate hairpin structures II and III of the ColE1 RNA primer as determinants of plasmid compatibility. Thus, useful and unexpected mutations can be found from libraries containing only deletions.
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- Dewey Kim
- IntegriGen, Inc., 42 Digital Dr. Bldg. 6, Novato, CA 94949, USA
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Mouratou B, Rouyre S, Pauillac S, Guesdon JL. Development of nonradioactive microtiter plate assays for nuclease activity. Anal Biochem 2002; 309:40-7. [PMID: 12381360 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00272-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We have developed two microtiter plate assays for the detection of DNA cleavage by nucleases, using 3'-biotinylated oligonucleotide substrates. In the covalently linked oligonucleotide nuclease assay (CLONA), the biotinylated substrates are phosphorylated at the 5' end to facilitate their covalent immobilization on CovaLink NH plates. The cleavage of the covalently immobilized substrate by nucleases results in biotin release. The uncleaved substrate molecules are detected with an enzyme-avidin conjugate. The affinity-linked oligonucleotide nuclease assay (ALONA) makes use of substrates with a digoxigenin on the 5' end of the 3'-biotinylated DNA strand. The substrate binds specifically to the wells of streptavidin-coated microtiter plates, in which the nuclease reaction takes place. Uncleaved substrate retains the digoxigenin label, which is detected with an enzyme-labeled anti-digoxigenin antibody. We assessed the efficiency of these two assays by measuring S1 nuclease and DNase I activities, and the inhibitory effect of EDTA and aurintricarboxylic acid on the reaction. Both methods are more convenient than the standard radioactive nuclease assay and are suitable for high-throughput screening of potential nuclease inhibitors, nucleases, and catalytic antibodies. The ALONA assay was found to be more sensitive than the CLONA assay, with a performance similar to that of the standard nuclease assay.
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- Barbara Mouratou
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Anticorps, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Asad SF, Singh S, Ahmad A, Hadi SM. Bilirubin/biliverdin-Cu(II) induced DNA breakage; reaction mechanism and biological significance. Toxicol Lett 2002; 131:181-9. [PMID: 11992737 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(02)00031-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bilirubin and its metabolic precursor biliverdin are heme degradation products but have been proposed as physiological antioxidants. Reports from another laboratory as well as from ours have shown bilirubin to form a complex with the transition metal ion-Cu(II). Such a complex was shown by us to cause oxidative DNA damage. Further, biliverdin was also shown to be capable of causing similar DNA damage. In the present studies we have aimed to elucidate the mechanism of DNA breakage reaction by these bile pigments. Absorption and fluorescence studies indicate binding of bile pigments to DNA and copper ions. Cu(II) is reduced by these compounds to Cu(I) which is an essential intermediate in the DNA breakage reaction. Redox recycling of Cu(II) leads to generation of reactive oxygen species. Strand scission by the bile pigments-Cu(II) system is found to be biologically significant as assayed by bacteriophage inactivation. Our results, therefore are suggestive of one of the mechanisms through which endogenous DNA damage may occur.
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- S Farhan Asad
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, UP 202 002, India
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Seela F, Kehne A. Oligomers with alternating thymidine and 2'-deoxytubercidin: duplex stabilization by a 7-deazapurine base. Biochemistry 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/bi00347a008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lease RA, Belfort M. A trans-acting RNA as a control switch in Escherichia coli: DsrA modulates function by forming alternative structures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:9919-24. [PMID: 10954740 PMCID: PMC27626 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.170281497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DsrA is an 87-nucleotide regulatory RNA of Escherichia coli that acts in trans by RNA-RNA interactions with two different mRNAs, hns and rpoS. DsrA has opposite effects on these transcriptional regulators. H-NS levels decrease, whereas RpoS (final sigma(s)) levels increase. Here we show that DsrA enhances hns mRNA turnover yet stabilizes rpoS mRNA, either directly or via effects on translation. Computational and RNA footprinting approaches led to a refined structure for DsrA, and a model in which DsrA interacts with the hns mRNA start and stop codon regions to form a coaxial stack. Analogous bipartite interactions exist in eukaryotes, albeit with different regulatory consequences. In contrast, DsrA base pairs in discrete fashion with the rpoS RNA translational operator. Thus, different structural configurations for DsrA lead to opposite regulatory consequences for target RNAs.
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- R A Lease
- Molecular Genetics Program, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, and School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, P.O. Box 22002, Albany, NY 12201-2002, USA.
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Desai NA, Shankar V. Purification and characterization of the single-strand-specific and guanylic-acid-preferential deoxyribonuclease activity of the extracellular nuclease from Basidiobolus haptosporus. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:5123-35. [PMID: 10931196 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An extracellular nuclease from Basidiobolus haptosporus (designated as nuclease Bh1) was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation, heat treatment, negative adsorption on DEAE-cellulose, and chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose followed by FPLC on phenyl-Superose. The overall yield was 26%. The Mr of the purified enzyme, determined by gel filtration, was 41 000 whereas by SDS/PAGE (after deglycosylation) it was 30 000. It is a glycoprotein with a pI of 6.8. The optimum pH and temperature for DNA hydrolysis were 8. 5 and 60 degrees C, respectively. Nuclease Bh1 is a metalloprotein but has no obligate requirement for metal ions to be active, nor is its activity stimulated in the presence of metal ions. The enzyme was inhibited by Zn2+, Ag2+, Hg2+, Fe3+ and Al3+, inorganic phosphate, pyrophosphate, dithiothreitol, 2-mercaptoethanol, NaCl and KCl. It was stable to high concentrations of organic solvents and urea but susceptible to low concentrations of SDS and guanidine hydrochloride. Nuclease Bh1 is a multifunctional enzyme and its substrate specificity is in the order of ssDNA approximately 3'AMP >> RNA > dsDNA. Studies on its mode of action showed that it cleaved supercoiled pUC 18 DNA and phage M13 DNA, endonucleolytically, generating single base nicks. The enzyme hydrolyzed DNA with preferential liberation of 5'dGMP, suggesting it to be a guanylic acid preferential endoexonuclease. 5'dGMP, the end product of hydrolysis, was a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme. The absence of 5'dCMP as a hydrolytic product, coupled with the resistance of (dC)10 and deoxyribodinucleoside monophosphates having cytosine either at the 3' or the 5' end, indicates that C-linkages are resistant to cleavage by nuclease Bh1.
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- N A Desai
- Division of Biochemical Sciences, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
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Umemura K, Nagami F, Okada T, Kuroda R. AFM characterization of single strand-specific endonuclease activity on linear DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:E39. [PMID: 10756206 PMCID: PMC103312 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.9.e39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/1999] [Revised: 02/24/2000] [Accepted: 03/03/2000] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The specificity of nucleases for nicked and un-nicked double-stranded DNA has been characterized using atomic force microscopy (AFM). We have found that AFM has advantages over the usual macroscopic analyses, such as sucrose gradient centrifugation or electrophoresis, in characterizing nuclease digestion. In particular, short DNA fragments resulting from non-specific digestion were detected and, thus, the true length distribution of digested DNA was revealed. A simple numerical method is proposed to estimate the number of nicked sites per DNA molecule based on AFM images.
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- K Umemura
- Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT), 1-1-4 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0046, Japan
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Poon K, Macgregor RB. Probing the structure of multi-stranded guanine-rich DNA complexes by Raman spectroscopy and enzymatic degradation. Biophys Chem 1999; 79:11-23. [PMID: 10371018 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(99)00034-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The multi-stranded DNA complexes formed by the oligonucleotides d(T15G4T2G4), Tel, and d(T15G15), TG, were examined by nuclease digestion and Raman spectroscopy. Both Tel and TG can aggregate to form structures consisting of multiple, parallel-oriented DNA strands with two independent structural domains. Overall, the structures of the TG and Tel aggregates appear similar. According to the Raman data, the majority of bases are in C2'-endo/anti conformation. The interaction of guanines at the 3'-ends in both complexes stabilizes the complexes and protects them from degradation by exonuclease III. The 5'-extensions remain single-stranded and the thymines are accessible to single-strand-specific nuclease digestion. The extent of enzymatic cleavage at the junction at the 5' end of the 15 thymines implies a conformational change between this part of the molecule and the guanine-rich region. The differential enzymatic sensitivity of the complexes suggests there are variations in backbone conformations between TG and Tel aggregates. TG aggregates were more resistant to digestion by DNase I, Mung Bean nuclease, and S1 nuclease than Tel complexes. It is proposed that the lower DNase I sensitivity may be partly due to the more stable backbone exhibited by TG than Tel complexes. Structural uniformity along the guanine core of TG is suggested, as there is no indication of structural discontinuities or protected sites in the guanine-rich regions of TG aggregates. The lower extent of digestion by Mung Bean nuclease at the 3' end implies that these bases are inaccessible to the enzyme. This suggests that there is minimal fraying at the ends, which is consistent with the extreme thermal stability of the TG aggregates.
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- K Poon
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Hatakeyama M, Nakamura K, Iwato S, Handa H, Fujimoto K, Kawaguchi H. DNA-carrying latex particles for DNA diagnosis 2. Distinction of normal and point mutant DNA using S1 nuclease. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0927-7765(97)00058-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Single-strand-specific nucleases, which act on single-stranded nucleic acids and single-stranded regions in double-stranded nucleic acids, are multifunctional enzymes and are ubiquitous in distribution. They find wide application as analytical tools in molecular biology research, although enzymes such as P1 nuclease are also used for production of flavor enhancers such as 5' IMP and 5' GMP. Because these enzymes are mainly used as analytical tools, very little attention was paid to aspects relating to their structure-function relationships. However, during the last few years considerable developments have taken place in this area. Single-strand-specific nucleases, their purification, characteristics, biological role, and applications have been reviewed.
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- S U Gite
- Division of Biochemical Sciences, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
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Approximately 60,000 transposon-like elements of the Tec1 and Tec2 families excise en masse from the micronuclear genome during formation of a macronucleus in Euplotes crassus. The circular product has been shown previously to contain the element inverted repeats joined head to head. To elucidate the mechanism of Tec excision, we have further characterized the circular products. DNA sequence analysis of cloned inverted repeat junctions and of population of supercoiled Tec circles shows that the inverted repeat junctions consist of both copies of the target site duplication surrounding 10 additional bases. The 10 bp differs for each junction. We demonstrate that the circles are highly sensitive to S1, mung bean and Bal 31 nucleases, and the site of sensitivity maps to the junction. Alkaline gel electrophoresis indicates that the junction does not contain a nick or gap; thus, a likely explanation for the nuclease sensitivity is the existence of a heteroduplex DNA structure at the junction. On the basis of these results, we present a model of Tec excision and discuss the relationship of Tec excision to IES elimination and chromosome fragmentation in E. crassus.
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- J W Jaraczewski
- Department of Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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Enzymatic effects of a lysine-to-glutamine mutation in the ATP-binding consensus sequence in the RecD subunit of the RecBCD enzyme from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)46007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The enhancement of fluorescence of the DNA analog poly(d epsilon A) following nucleolytic degradation to mononucleotides was found to be a convenient signal for studying nuclease, especially exonuclease, activity. This measurement, which is simple to obtain and extremely sensitive, detects various kinds of DNases and can be applied to the detection of nucleases in the course of protein purification. The signal change can be observed continuously during the reaction and easily converted to the amount of liberated mononucleotide. The method is thus suitable for quantitative and kinetic studies of exonuclease activity.
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- M Takahashi
- Groupe de Cancérogénèse et Mutagénèse Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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Strickland JA, Marzilli LG, Puckett JM, Doetsch PW. Purification and properties of nuclease SP. Biochemistry 1991; 30:9749-56. [PMID: 1655020 DOI: 10.1021/bi00104a026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Single-strand-specific nucleases are a diverse and important group of enzymes that are able to cleave a variety of DNA structures present in duplex molecules. Nuclease SP, an enzyme from spinach, has been purified to apparent homogeneity, allowing for the unambiguous characterization of a number of its physical properties as well as its DNA strand cleavage specificities. The effects of ionic strength, pH, divalent metal cations, and temperature on nuclease SP activity have been examined in detail. Nuclease SP was found to be quite thermostable and could be stimulated by Co2+. In addition, the cleavage of UV-damaged and undamaged supercoiled plasmid substrates under a variety of conditions suggests that at least two types of structures are recognized and processed by nuclease SP: UV photoproduct-induced distortions and unwound "nuclease hypersensitive sites". These studies indicate that nuclease SP is functionally related to other single-strand-specific nucleases and is a potential enzymatic tool for probing and manipulating various types of DNA structures.
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- J A Strickland
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Hungnes O, Tjotta E, Grinde B. The plus strand is discontinuous in a subpopulation of unintegrated HIV-1 DNA. Arch Virol 1991; 116:133-41. [PMID: 2001174 DOI: 10.1007/bf01319237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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During reverse transcription the synthesis of plus strand viral DNA is initiated from an RNA polypurine primer immediately upstream of the U 3 region. The polypurine tract (PPT) sequence at this site is in HIV-1 also present in the middle of the genome. Here we demonstrate that a subpopulation of linear unintegrated HIV-1 DNA has a discontinuity in the plus strand within less than 50 bp from this central PPT, consistent with its utilization as a plus strand initiation site.
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- O Hungnes
- Department of Virology, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Zuccarelli AJ, Roy I, Harding GP, Couperus JJ. Diversity and stability of restriction enzyme profiles of plasmid DNA from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 1990; 28:97-102. [PMID: 2153702 PMCID: PMC269544 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.28.1.97-102.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Nosocomial infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a significant epidemiological problem. Detecting the sources of epidemic strains and preventing their access to patients, however, depend upon the availability of techniques to reliably distinguish among MRSA strains. We evaluated restriction enzyme analysis of plasmid DNA for use as an epidemiological marker of MRSA strains. The diversity of plasmid types was assessed by examining 120 clinical and environmental MRSA isolates from five southern California hospitals and from the American Type Culture Collection. Thirty-seven distinctive EcoRI digestion patterns were observed. We characterized each strain by the number of plasmids it contained and the sizes of the fragments that were generated by EcoRI. Very few of the isolates (4.2%) lacked plasmids, and some (6.7%) contained DNA that was not digested by EcoRI. Several isolates (12.5%) contained two or more plasmids. We were able to assess the stability of MRSA plasmid types by tracking epidemic strains over a 2-year period. We also examined successive isolates from 10 individual patients during their hospitalization. In all but one case, the patient's plasmid profiles remained unchanged. We conclude that the diversity and stability of MRSA plasmid types make them excellent epidemiological markers. In support of this conclusion, we found that our data provided significant epidemiological insights. Two epidemic strains, accounting for more than half of the infections, were identified in the five hospitals. The remaining cases were sporadic, caused by MRSA strains that appeared very infrequently and that may have originated from sources outside the hospitals.
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- A J Zuccarelli
- Department of Microbiology, Loma Linda University, California 92354
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Control of the adipsin gene in adipocyte differentiation. Identification of distinct nuclear factors binding to single- and double-stranded DNA. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)40255-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Brookes AJ, Solomon E. Evaluation of the use of S1 nuclease to detect small length variations in genomic DNA. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 183:291-6. [PMID: 2569395 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14927.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A method which utilises S1 nuclease to detect small length variations in cloned and genomic DNA has been evaluated. The methodology of this technique is simple and robust, permitting the rapid analysis of 10(4) base pairs. By employing defined sequence variants, this method is shown to have a sensitivity which should enable the detection of length variations of only a few base pairs in heterozygous individuals.
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- A J Brookes
- Department of Somatic Cell Genetics, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
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Dudareva NA, Kiseleva EV, Boyarintseva AE, Maystrenko AG, Khristolyubova NB, Salganik RI. Structure of the mitochondrial genome of Beta vulgaris L. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 1988; 76:753-759. [PMID: 24232354 DOI: 10.1007/bf00303522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/1987] [Accepted: 02/29/1988] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The structure of mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) from sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) has been studied by biochemical methods and electron microscopy. It was found to be complex multipartite consisting of two main classes of molecules: high molecules weight (HMW) mtDNA and low molecular weight (LMW) mtDNA. The HMW mtDNA consists of rosette-like structures and globules resembling chromomeres (150-200nm). A typical rosette has a protein core and radially stemming closed DNA loops (from 0.6-1.5 μm). The number of loops in a rosette varies from 16-30. The bulk of HMW mtDNAs are represented by interconnected rosettes (total contour length about 130-160 μm, 403-496 kbp). Such large circular DNAs may be evidence of the master chromosome arrangement of the sugarbeet genome. Globules and rosettes are interconnected by thick and thin DNA fibrils, along which nucleosome- and nucleomere-like structures are distributed. The LWM mtDNA is composed of two groups of supercoiled circular molecules, 0,2-1.5 μm and 0.02-0.05 μm in size. Electrophoretic analysis demonstrated that LWM mtDNA is represented by minicircle plasmid-like DNA molecules of 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 kbp.
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- N A Dudareva
- Siberian Department, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, SU-630090, Novosibirsk, USSR
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Matsuo N, Ross PM. Accurate measurement of psoralen-crosslinked DNA: direct biochemical measurements and indirect measurement by hybridization. Arch Biochem Biophys 1988; 266:351-68. [PMID: 3142359 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(88)90267-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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This paper evaluates methods to measure crosslinkage due to psoralen plus light in total DNA and in specific sequences. DNA exposed in cells or in vitro to a bifunctional psoralen and near ultraviolet light accumulates interstrand crosslinks. Crosslinkage is the DNA mass fraction that is attached in both strands to a crosslink. We show here biochemical methods to measure psoralen photocrosslinkage accurately in total DNA. We also describe methods to measure photocrosslinkage indirectly, in specific sequences, by nucleic acid hybridization. We show that a single 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP) crosslink causes at least 50 kbp of alkali-denatured DNA contiguous in both strands with it to snap back into the duplex form when the denatured preparation is returned to neutral pH. This process was so efficient that the DNA was not nicked by the single-strand nuclease S1 at 100-fold excess after snapping back. Uncrosslinked DNA was digested to acid-soluble material by the enzyme. Crosslinkage therefore equals the fraction of S1-resistant nucleotide in this kind of experiment. We alkali-denatured DNA samples crosslinked to varying degrees by varying TMP concentration at constant light exposure. We then measured crosslinkage by ethidium bromide (EtBr) fluorometry at pH 11.8; by EtBr fluorometry at neutral pH of S1 digests of the DNA; and by the fraction of radioactivity remaining acid insoluble in S1-digests of DNA labeled uniformly with [3H]deoxythymidine. These assays measure distinct physical properties of crosslinked DNA. Numerical agreement is expected only when all three measurements are accurate. Under optimum conditions, the three methods yielded identical results over the range of measurement. Using alkaline EtBr fluorescence in crude cell lysates, we detected crosslinks at frequencies in the range of 1.6 X 10(-7) per base pair. These levels were compatible with cell survival, attesting to the sensitivity of the measurement system. Crosslinkage affected hybridization as well. One crosslink prevented all alkali-denatured DNA contiguous in both strands with it from hybridizing to complementary DNA either on solid supports or in solution. Strand-length effects on crosslinkage and on reassociation caused solution hybridization levels to exceed those predicted by simple theory. In a quantitative, dot-blotting assay hybridization was linear up to membrane saturation by denatured, uncrosslinked DNA of any strand length.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- N Matsuo
- Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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