Mechanistic Independence of Avian Myeloblastosis Virus DNA Polymerase and Ribonuclease H
AUTOR(ES)
Brewer, Lorraine C.
RESUMO
Differential inhibition conditions were established for the DNA polymerase and RNase H activities of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) with ether-disrupted AMV and a purified enzyme preparation. The RNase H activity of ether-disrupted AMV with (rA)n·(dT)n and (rA)n·(dT)11 as substrates was inhibited 80 to 100% by preincubation with NaF at a final reaction concentration of 27 to 30 mM. Under these conditions, the DNA polymerase activity was inhibited only 0 to 20%. Similar inhibitions were found with exogenous Rous sarcoma virus 35S and 70S RNA·DNA hybrid and φX174 DNA·RNA hybrid as substrates. Studies were also performed with a purified enzyme preparation, in which the two activities essentially co-purified. The RNase H activity was inhibited >80% by 150 mM KCl with three different hybrid substrates, whereas the DNA polymerase activity was uninhibited. The DNA polymerase was completely inactivated by heat denaturation at 41 C or by omission of the deoxytriphosphates from the reaction mixture; the RNase H remained active. These differential inhibition conditions were used to compare the size of the DNA product synthesized with and without simultaneous RNase H action and to examine the effect of inhibition of the DNA polymerase on the size of the RNase H products. The size of the products of one activity was not affected by inhibition of the other activity. These results suggest that the AMV DNA polymerase and RNase H are not coupled mechanistically.
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