Rubin R A, Modrich P
Nucleic Acids Res. 1978 Aug;5(8):2991-7. doi: 10.1093/nar/5.8.2991.
The mechanism of EcoRI endonuclease is substrate dependent. At 37 degrees dissociation of the enzyme-Form II DNA intermediates of ColE1 DNA and bacteriophage G4 RFI DNA is negligible. Therefore, both DNA strands with in the EcoRI sequence are cleaved during a single binding event. However, double strand cleavage of SV40 DNA occurs without dissociation of the enzyme in only 75% of the catalytic events. This mechanistic difference presumably reflects sequence differences about the EcoRI sites of these DNA's.
EcoRI核酸内切酶的作用机制取决于底物。在37℃时,ColE1 DNA和噬菌体G4 RFI DNA的酶-形式II DNA中间体的解离可忽略不计。因此,EcoRI序列中的两条DNA链在单次结合事件中都会被切割。然而,SV40 DNA的双链切割仅在75%的催化事件中发生,且酶不会解离。这种机制差异大概反映了这些DNA的EcoRI位点周围的序列差异。