An adenosine triphosphate-dependent deoxyribonuclease from Alcaligenes faecalis
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 163 (3) , 485-494
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1630485
Abstract
A deoxyribonuclease was purified approx. 800-fold from crude extracts of the bacterium Alcaligenes faecalis. The enzyme requires ATP and Mn2+; ATP could be replaced by any other ribo- or deoxyribo-nucleoside triphosphate, and Mn2+ could be replaced by Mg2+ in 0.1 M-Tris/HCl, pH 8.0 at 37 degrees C. The enzyme could degrade linear duplex or denaturated DNA, but was inactive with closed-circular duplex DNA from bacteriophase PM-2. In the course of nucleolytic activity, ATP was hydrolysed. We have measured deoxyribonuclease and adenoxine triphosphatase activity in the presence of various salts, and found that the amount of ATP hydrolysis associated with a given amount of deoxyribonuclease activity was decreased in the presence of tetraethylammonium ions. Since these ions decrease the stability of the DNA helix, we conclude that one function of the ATP hydrolysis is to unwind the DNA.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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