title: Processivity of Escherichia coli and rat liver mitochondrial uracil-DNA glycosylase is affected by NaCl concentration.
abstract: Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase was shown to catalyze the hydrolysis of a site-specific uracil residue from a defined single-stranded oligonucleotide (25-mer). With duplex 25-mer, the rate of uracil removal from double-stranded DNA containing a U.G mispair was approximately 2-fold greater than a U.A base pair. The mechanism by which E. coli and rat liver mitochondrial uracil-DNA glycosylase located sequential uracil residues within double-stranded DNA was investigated. Two concatemeric polynucleotide substrates were constructed by ligation of homologous 5'-end 32P-labeled 25-mer double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained either a site-specific U.G or U.A target site at intervals of 25 nucleotides along one strand of the DNA. Reaction of uracil-DNA glycosylase with these concatemeric DNAs, followed by alkaline hydrolysis of the resultant AP-sites, would produce predominantly [32P]25-mer products, if a processive mechanism was used to locate successive uracil residues, or oligomeric multiples of [32P]25-mer, if a distributive mode was exhibited. Both the bacterial and the mitochondrial enzymes were found to act processively on U.A- and U.G-containing DNA in the absence of NaCl, based on the initial rate of 25-mer produced relative to the total amount of uracil excised. Approximately 50% of the total uracil excised resulted in the release of 25-mer product. The addition of NaCl (> or = 50 mM) caused reduced processivity on both U.A- and U.G-containing DNA substrates. The mode of action of uracil-DNA glycosylase was very similar to that observed for the EcoRI endonuclease cleavage of restriction sites contained in the same DNA substrate which was used as a positive control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331, USA.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Sanderson
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Mosbaugh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000187:drug effects; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D051981:Uracil-DNA Glycosidase
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D051981:Uracil-DNA Glycosidase