Grindl W, Wende W, Pingoud V, Pingoud A
Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1998 Apr 15;26(8):1857-62. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.8.1857.
The homing endonuclease PI- Sce I consists of a protein splicing domain (I) and an endonucleolytic domain (II). To characterize the two domains with respect to their contribution to DNA recognition we cloned, purified and characterized the isolated domains. Both domains have no detectable endonucleolytic activity. Domain I binds specifically to the PI- Sce I recognition sequence, whereas domain II displays only weak non-specific DNA binding. In the specific complex with domain I the DNA is bent to a similar extent as observed with the initial complex formed between PI- Sce I and DNA. Our results indicate that protein splicing domain I is also involved in recognition of the DNA substrate.
归巢核酸内切酶PI-Sce I由一个蛋白质剪接结构域(I)和一个核酸内切酶结构域(II)组成。为了表征这两个结构域对DNA识别的贡献,我们克隆、纯化并表征了分离出的结构域。两个结构域均未检测到核酸内切酶活性。结构域I特异性结合PI-Sce I识别序列,而结构域II仅表现出微弱的非特异性DNA结合。在与结构域I形成的特异性复合物中,DNA的弯曲程度与PI-Sce I和DNA形成的初始复合物中观察到的相似。我们的结果表明,蛋白质剪接结构域I也参与了DNA底物的识别。