Purification, Characterization, and Comparison of the DNA Polymerases from Two Primate RNA Tumor Viruses
AUTOR(ES)
Abrell, John W.
RESUMO
The DNA polymerase from the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV), an RNA tumor virus not typical type-C or type-B, has been purified a thousand-fold over the original crude viral suspension. This purified enzyme is compared to a similarly purified DNA polymerase from the primate woolly monkey virus, a type-C virus. The two enzymes have similar template specificities but differ in their requirements for optimum activity. Both DNA polymerases have a pH optimum of 7.3 in Tris buffer. M-PMV enzyme has maximum activity with 5 mM Mg2+ and 40 mM potassium chloride, whereas the woolly monkey virus optima are 100 mM potassium chloride with 0.8 mM Mn2+. The apparent molecular weight of the M-PMV enzyme is approximately 110,000, whereas the woolly monkey virus polymerase is approximately 70,000. The biochemical properties of these two enzymes were also compared to a similarly purified enzyme from a type-C virus from a lower mammal (Rauscher murine leukemia virus). The results show that more similarity exists between the DNA polymerases from viruses of the same type (type-C), than between the polymerases from viruses of different types but from closely related species.
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