title: Purification of a polynucleotide kinase from calf thymus, comparison of its 3'-phosphatase domain with T4 polynucleotide kinase, and investigation of its effect on DNA replication in vitro.
abstract: Mammalian polynucleotide kinases (PNKs) carry out 5'-phosphorylation of nucleic acids. Although the cellular function(s) of these enzymes remain to be delineated, important suggestions have included a role in DNA repair and, more recently, in DNA replication. Like T4 PNK, some preparations of mammalian PNKs have been reported to have an associated 3'-phosphatase activity. Previously, we have identified in calf thymus glands an apparently novel PNK with a neutral to alkaline pH optimum that lacked 3'-phosphatase activity. In this report, we describe purification of another bovine PNK, SNQI-PNK, with a slightly acidic pH optimum that copurifies with a 3'-phosphatase activity. The enzyme appears to be a monomer of 60 kDa. Mammalian DNA replication reactions were supplemented with T4 PNK or SNQI-PNK, and no significant effect on DNA replication in vitro was observed. Database searches support the earlier mapping of the 3'-phosphatase activity of T4 PNK to the C-terminus and suggest that the 3'-phosphatase domain of T4 PNK is related to the protein superfamily of L-2-haloacid dehalogenases. Exopeptidase digestion experiments were carried out to compare the SNQI-PNK enzyme with T4 PNK and led to the inference that the domain organization of the bovine polypeptide may differ from that of the T4 enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Oncology Group, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jilani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Slack
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matheos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zannis-Hadjopoulos
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Lasko
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017122:Bacteriophage T4 / Q000201:enzymology*; D002417:Cattle; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004261:DNA Replication; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry*; D011116:Polynucleotide 5'-Hydroxyl-Kinase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D011116:Polynucleotide 5'-Hydroxyl-Kinase; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases