Neurospora endo-exonuclease is immunochemically related to the recC gene product of Escherichia coli.

AUTOR(ES)

Fraser, M J

RESUMO

Immunochemical cross-reaction between the endo-exonuclease of Neurospora crassa, an enzyme previously implicated in recombination and recombinational DNA repair, and the recC-encoded polypeptide of Escherichia coli has been detected by immunoblotting extracts of strains of E. coli having a deletion that includes the recBCD genes but carrying multicopy plasmids bearing all three of the recBCD genes or only one or two of these genes. It was predicted that homology would also be found at the amino acid sequence level between the recC polypeptide and both nuclear and mitochondrial endo-exonucleases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which cross-react with antibodies raised to the N. crassa endo-exonuclease. Since the gene for the S. cerevisiae mitochondrial enzyme, NUC1, has been cloned and sequenced and the predicted amino acid sequence is known, this sequence was aligned with the predicted amino acid sequence of the recC polypeptide. Extensive homology was found by aligning 306 of the 329 amino acids of the yeast mitochondrial nuclease sequence with the carboxy-terminal one-quarter of the amino acid sequence of the recC polypeptide.

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