Alteration by site-directed mutagenesis of the conserved lysine residue in the consensus ATP-binding sequence of the RecB protein of Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Hsieh, S
RESUMO
The RecB and RecD subunits of the RecBCD enzyme of Escherichia coli contain amino acid sequences similar to a consensus mononucleotide binding motif found in a large number of other enzymes. We have constructed by site-directed mutagenesis a lysine-to-glutamine mutation in this sequence in the RecB protein. The mutant enzyme (RecB-K29Q-CD) has essentially no nuclease or ATP hydrolysis activity on double-stranded DNA, showing the importance of RecB for unwinding double-stranded DNA. However, ATP hydrolysis stimulated by single-stranded DNA is reduced by only about 5-8-fold compared to the wild-type, nuclease activity on single-stranded DNA is reduced by less than 2-fold, and the nuclease activity of the RecB-K29Q-CD enzyme requires ATP. The effects of the RecB mutation suggest that the RecD protein hydrolyzes ATP and can stimulate the RecBCD enzyme nuclease activity on single-stranded DNA.
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