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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
As a step toward the characterization of the main components of mitochondrial DNA replication apparatus in sea urchin, we report the identification of a DNA-helicase activity in Paracentrotus lividus mitochondria. The activity was detected in a protein fraction obtained by fractionating on DEAE-Sephacel a lysate of gradient purified mitochondria from paracentrotus lividus eggs. The mitochondrial helicase unwound, in the presence of ATP and Mg++, a 39-base oligonucleotide annealed to single-stranded M13mp18 (+) DNA. Its direction of movement is 3' to 5' with respect to the single stranded portion of the partial duplex DNA substrate. This polarity is similar to that exhibited by the Escherichia coli rep helicase and by the helicase from bovine brain mitochondria. These features suggest that the sea urchin mitochondrial helicase could function in enabling the polymerization of the H-strand during mitochondrial DNA replication.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
219
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
134-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Cell Fractionation, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Chromatography, Ion Exchange, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-DNA, Mitochondrial, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-DNA Helicases, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-DNA Replication, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Magnesium, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Ovum, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Sea Urchins, pubmed-meshheading:8619795-Substrate Specificity
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
DNA-helicase activity from sea urchin mitochondria.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't