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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-7-31
pubmed:abstractText
Replication of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty1 retrotransposon requires a reverse transcriptase capable of synthesizing Ty1 DNA. The first description of an active form of a recombinant Ty1 enzyme with polymerase and RNase H activities is reported here. The Ty1 enzyme was expressed as a hexahistidine-tagged fusion protein in Escherichia coli to facilitate purification of the recombinant protein by metal-chelate chromatography. Catalytic activity of the recombinant protein was detected only when amino acid residues encoded by the integrase gene were added to the N-terminus of the reverse transcriptase-RNase H domain. This suggests that the integrase domain could play a role in proper folding of reverse transcriptase. Several biochemical properties of the Ty1 enzyme were analysed, including the effect of MgCl(2), NaCl, temperature and of the chain terminator dideoxy GTP on its polymerase activity. RNase H activity was examined by monitoring the cleavage of a RNA-DNA template-primer. Our results suggest that the distance between the RNase H and polymerase active sites corresponds to the length of a 14-nucleotide RNA-DNA heteroduplex. The recombinant protein produced in E. coli should be useful for further biochemical and structural analyses and for a better understanding of the role of integrase in the activation of reverse transcriptase.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0264-6021
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
348 Pt 2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
337-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Templates, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Codon, Terminator, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Chromatography, Affinity, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Integrases, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Ribonuclease H, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10816427-Open Reading Frames
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