HhaI Methylase and Restriction Endonuclease As Probes for B to Z DNA Conformational Changes in D(GCGC) Sequences

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1984 Oct 25

PMID 6093048

Citations 22

Authors

W Zacharias

J E Larson

M W Kilpatrick

R D Wells

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Abstract

The capacity of the modification methylase (MHhaI) and restriction endonuclease (HhaI) form Haemophilus haemolyticus to methylate and cleave, respectively, recognition sites which are in right-handed B or left-handed Z structures was determined in vitro. Plasmids containing tracts of (dC-dG) as well as numerous individual d(GCGC) sites distributed around the vector were studied. Negative supercoiling was used to convert the (dC-dG) tracts (approximately 30 bp in length) from a right-handed to a left-handed conformation. (Methyl-3H)-SAM was used to localize and quantitate modified d(GCGC) recognition sites, whereas cleavage by HhaI was used to detect unmethylated sites. In the left-handed Z-form, the (dC-dG) blocks were not methylated by MHhaI and not cleaved by HhaI. A two-dimensional gel analysis of a family of 33 topoisomers treated with MHhaI revealed that the lack of methylation in the (dC-dG) blocks was directly correlated to the supercoil-induced B to Z transition in these segments. These results are significant with respect to enzyme-DNA interactions in general and provide the basis for using HhaI and MHhaI as probes for different DNA structures and conformational transitions under physiological conditions.

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