Purification and properties of human DNA helicase VI.
AUTOR(ES)
Tuteja, N
RESUMO
A novel ATP-dependent DNA unwinding enzyme, called human DNA helicase VI (HDH VI), was purified to apparent homogeneity from HeLa cells and characterized. From 327 g of cultured cells, 0.44 mg of pure enzyme was recovered, free of DNA polymerase, ligase, topoisomerase, nicking and nuclease activities. The enzyme behaves as a monomer having an M(r) of 128 kDa, whether determined with SDS-PAGE, or in native conditions. Photoaffinity labelling with [alpha-32P]ATP labelled the 128 kDa protein. Only ATP or dATP hydrolysis supports the unwinding activity for which a divalent cation (Mg2+ > Mn2+) is required. HDH VI unwinds exclusively DNA duplexes with an annealed portion < 32 bp and prefers a replication fork-like structure of the substrate. It cannot unwind blunt-end duplexes and is inactive also on DNA-RNA or RNA-RNA hybrids. HDH VI unwinds DNA unidirectionally by moving in the 3' to 5' direction along the bound strand.
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