title: Human TOP3: a single-copy gene encoding DNA topoisomerase III.
abstract: A human cDNA encoding a protein homologous to the Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I subfamily of enzymes has been identified through cloning and sequencing. Expressing the cloned human cDNA in yeast (delta)top1 cells lacking endogenous DNA topoisomerase I yielded an activity in cell extracts that specifically reduces the number of supercoils in a highly negatively supercoiled DNA. On the basis of these results, the human gene containing the cDNA sequence has been denoted TOP3, and the protein it encodes has been denoted DNA topoisomerase III. Screening of a panel of human-rodent somatic hybrids and fluorescence in situ hybridization of cloned TOP3 genomic DNA to metaphase chromosomes indicate that human TOP3 is a single-copy gene located at chromosome 17p11.2-12.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hanai
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Caron
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002886:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17 / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006224:Cricetinae; D004264:DNA Topoisomerases, Type I / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004278:DNA, Superhelical / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004278:DNA, Superhelical; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004264:DNA Topoisomerases, Type I