Murine DNA Cytosine-C5 Methyltransferase: Pre-Steady- and Steady-State Kinetic Analysis with Regulatory DNA Sequences
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 35 (23) , 7308-7315
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi9600512
Abstract
We present the first description of KmDNA, KdDNA, kcat, and kmethylation for a mammalian DNA methyltransferase. Homogeneous, 190 000 Mr DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase isolated from mouse erythroleukemia cells has turnover constants of 0.15−0.59 h-1 with single-stranded and unmethylated double-stranded oligonucleotides containing a single CpG dinucleotide. These substrates were designed to mimic DNA transcriptional cis elements previously reported to have cytosine C-5-methylated regulation. The rate-limiting step for these substrates is the methylation step itself. In contrast, hemimethylated double-stranded substrates show burst kinetics, consistent with a rapid methylation event (3 h-1) followed by a slower step which determines steady-state kcat. Hemimethylated and unmethylated double-stranded DNA shows similar binding affinities; these results reveal the molecular basis for the enzyme's preference for hemimethylated DNA to be the methyl transfer step. Substrates with multiple recognition sites do not show burst kinetics and have turnover rate constants of 6 h-1. Catalytic turnover for the mammalian enzyme is thus approximately 10-fold slower than that for the related bacterial enzymes. Our combined results show quantitatively that one enzyme is certainly capable of both maintenance and de novo methylation and that maintenance of the genomic methylation pattern is preferred over the de novo establishment of new patterns. Direct comparison of the mammalian enzyme with the bacterial DNA cytosine-C5 methyltransferase, M.SssI, indicates dramatic differences in preferences for single-stranded, double-stranded, and hemimethylated double-stranded substrates. Moreover, the specificity hierarchy shown for the M.SssI is derived from very different changes in Km and catalysis than those observed for the mammalian DCMTase. These results demonstrate that the M.SssI, and perhaps other DNA cytosine methyltransferases from bacteria, is functionally dissimilar to the mammalian enzyme.Keywords
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