Braun A, Grossman L
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1974 May;71(5):1838-42. doi: 10.1073/pnas.71.5.1838.
At least two endonucleolytic activities that preferentially incise ultraviolet (UV)-irradiated DNA exist in extracts of E. coli. These two activities can be separated by phosphocellulose chromatographic fractionation. The subject of this paper is one of these activities, which elutes from phosphocellulose with 0.25 M potassium phosphate, pH 7.5. This endonucleolytic activity specific for UV-irradiated DNA is absent from partially purified extracts of uvrA and uvrB mutants, which are defective in excision of pyrimidine dimers, but is present in normal amounts in the uvrC excision-defective mutant. The enzyme binds very tightly and specifically to UV-irradiated DNA. Binding can be prevented by prior treatment of the irradiated DNA with photoreactivating enzyme. This binding activity is absent in uvrA and uvrB mutants, but present in uvrC and uvrD mutants.
大肠杆菌提取物中存在至少两种优先切割紫外线(UV)照射过的DNA的核酸内切酶活性。这两种活性可以通过磷酸纤维素柱层析分离。本文的研究对象是其中一种活性,它在pH 7.5的0.25 M磷酸钾条件下从磷酸纤维素上洗脱下来。这种对紫外线照射过的DNA具有特异性的核酸内切酶活性在嘧啶二聚体切除存在缺陷的uvrA和uvrB突变体的部分纯化提取物中不存在,但在uvrC切除缺陷突变体中含量正常。该酶与紫外线照射过的DNA紧密且特异性结合。用光复活酶预先处理照射过的DNA可阻止这种结合。uvrA和uvrB突变体中不存在这种结合活性,但uvrC和uvrD突变体中存在。