Nuclease mechanism of the avian retrovirus pp32 endonuclease.
AUTOR(ES)
Grandgenett, D P
RESUMO
In vivo, the inferred circular retrovirus DNA precursor to the provirus contains two long terminal repeats (LTRs) in tandem. We studied the site-specific nicking of supercoiled DNA that contains tandem copies of avian retrovirus LTR DNA in vitro by using purified avian myeloblastosis virus pp32 endonuclease, Mg2+, and viral DNA substrates containing different LTR circle junction sequences. The results confirmed our previous observation that the pp32 protein generates two nicks, one in either viral DNA strand, each 2 nucleotides from the circle junction site. The specificity of nicking by pp32 was unchanged over an eight-fold range of protein concentration and with different avian retrovirus LTR circle junction substrates. These data are consistent with models which propose a role for the endonuclease in removal of two nucleotides from the LTR termini on integration of viral DNA in vivo.
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