2-Aminopurine As a Fluorescent Probe for DNA Base Flipping by Methyltransferases

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1998 Mar 21

PMID 9461471

Citations 60

Authors

B Holz

S Klimasauskas

S Serva

E WEINHOLD

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Abstract

DNA base flipping, which was first observed for the C5-cytosine DNA methyltransferase M. Hha I, results in a complete removal of the stacking interactions between the target base and its neighbouring bases. We have investigated whether duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing the fluorescent base analogue 2-aminopurine can be used to sense DNA base flipping. Using M. Hha I as a paradigm for a base flipping enzyme, we find that the fluorescence intensity of duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing 2-aminopurine at the target site is dramatically enhanced (54-fold) in the presence of M. Hha I. Duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing 2-aminopurine adjacent to the target cytosine show little fluorescence increase upon addition of M. Hha I. These results clearly demonstrate that duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing 2-aminopurine at the target site can serve as fluorescence probes for base flipping. Another enzyme hypothesized to use a base flipping mechanism is the N6-adenine DNA methyltransferase M. Taq I. Addition of M. Taq I to duplex oligodeoxynucleotides bearing 2-aminopurine at the target position, also results in a strongly enhanced fluorescence (13-fold), whereas addition to duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing 2-aminopurine at the 3'- or 5'-neighbouring position leads only to small fluorescence increases. These results give the first experimental evidence that the adenine-specific DNA methyltransferase M. Taq I also flips its target base.

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