title: A new genomic tool, ultra-frequently cleaving TaqII/sinefungin endonuclease with a combined 2.9-bp recognition site, applied to the construction of horse DNA libraries.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Genomics and metagenomics are currently leading research areas, with DNA sequences accumulating at an exponential rate. Although enormous advances in DNA sequencing technologies are taking place, progress is frequently limited by factors such as genomic contig assembly and generation of representative libraries. A number of DNA fragmentation methods, such as hydrodynamic sharing, sonication or DNase I fragmentation, have various drawbacks, including DNA damage, poor fragmentation control, irreproducibility and non-overlapping DNA segment representation. Improvements in these limited DNA scission methods are consequently needed. An alternative method for obtaining higher quality DNA fragments involves partial digestion with restriction endonucleases (REases).
  
  
  RESULTS
  We constructed a horse genomic library and a deletion derivative library of the butyrylcholinesterase cDNA coding region using a novel method, based on TaqII, Thermus sp. family bifunctional enzyme exhibiting cofactor analogue specificity relaxation. We used sinefungin (SIN) - an S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) analogue with reversed charge pattern, and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), to convert the 6-bp recognition site TaqII (5'-GACCGA-3' [11/9]) into a theoretical 2.9-bp REase, with 70 shortened variants of the canonical recognition sequence detected. Because partial DNA cleavage is an inherent feature of the Thermus sp. enzyme family, this modified TaqII is uniquely suited to quasi-random library generation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the presence of SIN/DMSO, TaqII REase is transformed from cleaving every 4096 bp on average to cleaving every 58 bp. TaqII SIN/DMSO thus extends the palette of available REase prototype specificities. This phenomenon, employed under partial digestion conditions, was applied to quasi-random DNA fragmentation. Further applications include high sensitivity probe generation and metagenomic DNA amplification.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zylicz-Stachula
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zolnierkiewicz
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jasiecki
authors.forename: Piotr M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Skowron
mesh_terms: D000241:Adenosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D053837:DNA Cleavage; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific / Q000737:chemistry*; D015698:Genomic Library; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006736:Horses / Q000235:genetics*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013824:Thermus / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: C042367:endodeoxyribonuclease TaqII; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific; D000241:Adenosine; C006235:sinefungin