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Xu WC, Silverman MH, Yu XY, Wright G, Brown N. Discovery and development of DNA polymerase IIIC inhibitors to treat Gram-positive infections. Bioorg Med Chem 2019; 27:3209-3217. [PMID: 31221610 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2019.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Despite the growing global crisis caused by antimicrobial drug resistance among pathogenic bacteria, the number of new antibiotics, especially new chemical class of antibiotics under development is insufficient to tackle the problem. Our review focuses on an emerging class of antibacterial therapeutic agents that holds a completely novel mechanism of action, namely, inhibition of bacterial DNA polymerase IIIC. The recent entry of this new class into human trials may herald the introduction of novel drugs whose novel molecular target precludes cross-resistance with existing antibiotic classes. This review therefore examines the evolution of DNA pol IIIC inhibitors from the discovery of 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)uracil (HPUra) in the 1960s to the development of current first-in-class N7-substituted guanine drug candidate ACX-362E, now under clinical development for the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection.
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- Wei-Chu Xu
- Department of Chemistry, Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA 01602, USA.
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- Acurx Pharmaceuticals LLC, 22 Camelot Court, White Plains, NY 10603, USA
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- Acurx Pharmaceuticals LLC, 22 Camelot Court, White Plains, NY 10603, USA
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- Acurx Pharmaceuticals LLC, 22 Camelot Court, White Plains, NY 10603, USA
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Ali A, Taylor GE. Development of DNA polymerase IIIC inhibitors for the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2005. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.15.8.947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Wright GE, Brown NC, Xu WC, Long ZY, Zhi C, Gambino JJ, Barnes MH, Butler MM. Active site directed inhibitors of replication-specific bacterial DNA polymerases. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2005; 15:729-32. [PMID: 15664846 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2004] [Revised: 11/04/2004] [Accepted: 11/04/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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7-Substituted-N(2)-(3,4-dichlorobenzyl)guanines potently and competitively inhibit DNA polymerases IIIC and IIIE from Gram(+) bacteria. Certain derivatives are also competitive inhibitors of DNA polymerase IIIE from Gram(-) bacteria.
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- George E Wright
- GLSynthesis Inc., One Innovation Drive, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
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Shibutani S, Grollman AP. Miscoding during DNA synthesis on damaged DNA templates catalysed by mammalian cell extracts. Cancer Lett 1994; 83:315-22. [PMID: 8062231 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(94)90335-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Oligodeoxynucleotides, modified site-specifically with 7,8-dihydro-8-oxodeoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoadenosine (8-oxodA) and 6-O-methyldeoxyguanosine (O6medG), were used as templates for DNA synthesis in primer-extension reactions catalysed by extracts prepared from human (HeLa) cells, simian kidney (COS-7) cells and various mouse tissues. Fully-extended reaction products were analysed by two-phase polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Shibutani, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 6, 625, 1993). Using extracts prepared from HeLa or COS-7 cells, dAMP was preferentially incorporated opposite 8-oxodG; dTMP was incorporated opposite 8-oxodA and dTMP, accompanied by small amounts of dCMP, was incorporated opposite O6medG. Translesional synthesis was strongly inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide and partially inhibited by N-butylphenyl-dGTP. This model system can be used to predict the mutagenic potential of selectively-damaged DNA in mammalian cells.
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- S Shibutani
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8651
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Khan NN, Reha-Krantz LJ, Wright GE. Analysis of inhibitors of bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase. Nucleic Acids Res 1994; 22:232-7. [PMID: 8121808 PMCID: PMC307776 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.2.232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase was inhibited by butylphenyl nucleotides, aphidicolin and pyrophosphate analogs, but with lower sensitivities than other members of the B family DNA polymerases. The nucleotides N2-(p-n-butylphenyl)dGTP (BuPdGTP) and 2-(p-n-butylanilino)dATP (BuAdATP) inhibited T4 DNA polymerase with competitive Ki values of 0.82 and 0.54 microM with respect to dGTP and dATP, respectively. The same compounds were more potent inhibitors in truncated assays lacking the competitor dNTP, displaying apparent Ki values of 0.001 and 0.0016 microM, respectively. BuPdGTP was a substrate for T4 DNA polymerase, and the resulting 3'-BuPdG-primer:template was bound strongly by the enzyme. Each of the non-substrate derivatives, BuPdGDP and BuPdGMPCH2PP, inhibited T4 DNA polymerase with similar potencies in both the truncated and variable competitor assays. These results indicate that BuPdGTP inhibits T4 DNA polymerase by distinct mechanisms depending upon the assay conditions. Reversible competitive inhibition predominates in the presence of dGTP, and incorporation in the absence of dGTP leads to potent inhibition by the modified primer:template. The implications of these findings for the use of these inhibitors in the study of B family DNA polymerases is discussed.
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- N N Khan
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655
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Steinbrecher T, Wameling C, Oesch F, Seidel A. Die Aktivierung der C-2-Position von Purin durch die Trifluormethansulfonatgruppe: Synthese von N2-alkylierten Desoxyguanosinen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19931050310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Khan NN, Wright GE, Brown NC. The molecular mechanism of inhibition of alpha-type DNA polymerases by N2-(butylphenyl)dGTP and 2-(butylanilino)dATP: variation in susceptibility to polymerization. Nucleic Acids Res 1991; 19:1627-32. [PMID: 2027770 PMCID: PMC333925 DOI: 10.1093/nar/19.7.1627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha (pol alpha) and bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase (pol T4) were exploited as model enzymes to investigate the molecular mechanism of inhibitory action of N2-(p-n-butylphenyl)dGTP (BuPdGTP) and 2-(p-n-butyl-anilino)dATP (BuAdATP) on the BuPdNTP-susceptible alpha polymerase family. Kinetic analysis of inhibition of pol alpha with mixtures of complementary and noncomplementary template:primers indicated that both nucleotides induced the formation of a polymerase: inhibitor:primer-template complex. Primer extension experiments using the guanine form as the model analog indicated that pol alpha cannot utilize these nucleotides to extend primer termini. In contrast, pol T4 polymerized BuPdGTP, indicating that resistance to polymerization is not a common feature of the inhibitor mechanism among the broad membership of the alpha polymerase family.
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- N N Khan
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655
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Bender MA, Moore RC, Pyatt BE. Role of DNA polymerase alpha and delta in radiation clastogenesis. Mutat Res 1991; 262:31-6. [PMID: 1986281 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(91)90102-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- M A Bender
- Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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Inhibitory and substrate properties of analogs of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates toward DNA polymerases are reviewed. A general introduction is followed by a description of DNA polymerases and the reaction that they catalyze, and sites at which substrate analogs may inhibit them. Effects of modifications in the major family of compounds, nucleotide derivatives, at the base, sugar and triphosphate portions of the molecule, are summarized with respect to retention of substrate properties and generation of inhibitory properties. Structure-activity relationships and the basis of selectivity in the second family of compounds, deoxyribonucleotide mimics, are also presented. Conclusions are drawn regarding the structural basis of inhibitor selectivity and mechanism, relationship between in vitro and in vivo effects of inhibitors, and the promise of inhibitors as probes for study of active sites of DNA polymerases.
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- G E Wright
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655
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Romanelli MG, Pignatti PF. Herpes simplex virus replication in the presence of DNA polymerase alpha inhibitors. Virus Res 1988; 11:293-302. [PMID: 3223062 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1702(88)90003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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2-(p-n-butylanilino)deoxyadenosine (BuAdA), and N-2-(p-n-butylphenyl)deoxyguanosine (BuPdG), selective inhibitors of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha, were added to BHK-21(C13) cell cultures infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) strain 17 syn +. Infectious virus production decreased significantly in the presence of the inhibitor at concentrations varying from 1 nM to 100 microM. BuPdG was more effective than BuAdA at all concentrations tested, while it inhibited virus yield as much as BuAdA when CVG2, a thymidine kinase deficient (TK-) HSV-1, was employed. HSV DNA synthesis, determined by quantitation of CsCl separated DNA peaks, was inhibited by each compound. BuPdG inhibited viral DNA replication more than BuAdA, while the effect on cell DNA synthesis was the same as that of BuAdA. CVG2 DNA replication was inhibited to the same level by BuAdA as by BuPdG. These results indicate that HSV DNA replication is partially dependent on cell DNA polymerase alpha activity, and that the greater effect of BuPdG on viral replication may be ascribed to its action on HSV thymidine kinase.
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- M G Romanelli
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Verona School of Medicine, Italy
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The requirement of protozoan parasites for pre-formed purines affords the opportunity for quantitation of nucleic acid synthesis from incorporation of radioactively labeled purines into DNA and RNA. We have developed rapid and simple assays to quantitate DNA and RNA synthesis in promastigotes of Leishmania major and L. donovani from the incorporation of [3H]hypoxanthine. DNA but not RNA synthesis in L. major or L. donovani promastigotes was inhibited by aphidicolin (50% inhibition by 0.2-0.3 microM) and by hydroxyurea (50% inhibition by 0.3-0.5 mM). The inhibition of DNA synthesis by aphidicolin or hydroxyurea was reversible when the inhibitor was removed 2, 4 or 24 h after its addition. Several well-characterized agents that inhibit DNA synthesis in mammalian cells, 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (araC), 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine (araA), phosphonoacetic acid, novobiocin and N2-(p-n-butylphenyl)guanine (BuPG), failed to inhibit DNA synthesis in promastigotes of L. major even when used at very high concentrations, demonstrating differences between DNA replication components of parasite and host.
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Loeb LA, Liu PK, Fry M. DNA polymerase-alpha: enzymology, function, fidelity, and mutagenesis. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1986; 33:57-110. [PMID: 3797680 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60020-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Lee MY, Toomey NL, Wright GE. Differential inhibition of human placental DNA polymerases delta and alpha by BuPdGTP and BuAdATP. Nucleic Acids Res 1985; 13:8623-30. [PMID: 3936020 PMCID: PMC322157 DOI: 10.1093/nar/13.23.8623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The p-n-butylphenyl- and p-n-butylanilino- substituted analogs of dGTP and dATP, respectively, were tested as inhibitors of purified human placental DNA polymerases alpha and delta. It was observed that DNA polymerase alpha activity was potently inhibited by these analogs with I0.5 values as low as the nanomolar range, whereas DNA polymerase delta activity was poorly inhibited, with I0.5 values of ca. 100 micromolar. These results argue for a distinct identity of these two enzymes, and demonstrate the usefulness of these analogs as probes of DNA polymerase structures. In addition, these analogs provide a rapid method for the discrimination of the two enzyme activities and a means for the selective assay of DNA polymerase delta. Aphidicolin inhibited both DNA polymerases.
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Khan NN, Wright GE, Dudycz LW, Brown NC. Elucidation of the mechanism of selective inhibition of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha by 2-butylanilinopurines: development and characterization of 2-(p-n-butylanilino)adenine and its deoxyribonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res 1985; 13:6331-42. [PMID: 3931053 PMCID: PMC321956 DOI: 10.1093/nar/13.17.6331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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2-(p-n-Butylanilino)adenine (BuAA), an homolog of the DNA polymerase alpha (pol alpha)-specific inhibitor, N2-(p-n-butylphenyl)guanine (BuPG), was transformed to its 2'-deoxyribonucleoside, BuAdA, and the corresponding 2'-deoxyribonucleoside 5'-phosphates, BuAdAMP, BuAdADP, and BuAdATP. All five forms of BuAA are highly selective inhibitors of mammalian pol alpha, and the action of each is subject to specific competitive antagonism by dATP. BuAdADP, and BuAdATP, like the corresponding forms of BuPG, are very potent pol alpha inhibitors, displaying apparent Ki's of less than 3 nanomolar on natural activated templates. BuAdATP, like BuPdGTP, also inhibits pol alpha-catalysed reactions directed by non-complementary, thymine-deficient templates, and it does so via a mechanism subject to specific antagonism by its natural homolog, dATP. The results of the BuAdATP-homopolymer experiments complement those of analogous experiments with BuPdGTP and the dCTP-specific pol alpha inhibitor, aphidicolin, and strengthen the suggestion that mammalian pol alpha contains dNDP and dNTP binding sites which can recognize specific bases without direction by templates.
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El-Bayouki KAM, Nielsen FE, Pedersen EB. Phosphorus pentoxide in organic synthesis. XIX. Mixtures of phosphorus pentoxide and ortho-substituted arylamines as reagents in the synthesis of 9-aryl-9H-purin-6-amines. J Heterocycl Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.5570220349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Khan NN, Wright GE, Dudycz LW, Brown NC. Butylphenyl dGTP: a selective and potent inhibitor of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha. Nucleic Acids Res 1984; 12:3695-706. [PMID: 6728682 PMCID: PMC318779 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.8.3695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BuPdGTP , the 2'-deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphate of the DNA polymerase alpha (pol alpha)-specific inhibitor, N2-(p-n- butylphenyl )guanine, was examined with respect to its mechanism and its capacity to inhibit the mammalian DNA polymerases, pol alpha, pol beta, and pol gamma. BuP dGTP was specifically inhibitory for pol alpha, with no discernible activity on pol beta and pol gamma. The potency of BuP dGTP is unprecedented, with an apparent Ki less than 10 nanomolar. The unusual potency of the BuP dGTP is derived primarily from the 5' alpha and beta phosphoryl moieties, whose binding to enzyme complements that of the base-linked butylphenyl substituent. BuP dGTP is competitive with dGTP and apparently not subject to polymerization. Experiments employing BuP dGTP in the presence of a non-complementary template suggest that the core polymerase or an associated coprotein contains dNTP binding sites which recognize specific nucleic acid bases. The partial sensitivity of selected, non-mammalian DNA polymerases suggests that modification of the N2 substituent of dGTP will be a useful route to the design of novel, polymerase-specific affinity-probes.
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Badaracco G, Capucci L, Plevani P, Chang LM. Polypeptide structure of DNA polymerase I from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44515-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Baril E, Bonin P, Burstein D, Mara K, Zamecnik P. Resolution of the diadenosine 5',5"'-P1,P4-tetraphosphate binding subunit from a multiprotein form of HeLa cell DNA polymerase alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:4931-5. [PMID: 6576366 PMCID: PMC384161 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.16.4931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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A diadenosine 5',5"'-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) binding subunit has been resolved from a high molecular weight (640,000) multiprotein form of DNA polymerase alpha [deoxynucleoside triphosphate:DNA nucleotidyltransferase (DNA-directed), EC 2.7.7.7] from HeLa cells [DNA polymerase alpha 2 of Lamothe, P., Baril, B., Chi, A., Lee, L. & Baril, E. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 4723-4727]. The Ap4A binding activity copurifies with the DNA polymerizing activity during the course of purification. Hydrophobic chromatography on butylagarose resolves the Ap4A binding activity from the DNA polymerase. The Ap4A binding activity is protein in nature since the binding of Ap4A is abolished by treatment of the isolated binding activity with proteinase K but is insensitive to treatment with DNase or RNase. The molecular weight of the Ap4A binding protein, as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions or by NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after photoaffinity labeling of the protein with [32P]Ap4A is 92,000 or 47,000. The binding activity of this protein is highly specific for Ap4A.
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Watabe K, Shin M, Ito J. Protein-primed initiation of phage phi 29 DNA replication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:4248-52. [PMID: 6410387 PMCID: PMC384014 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.14.4248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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We recently reported the development of an in vitro replication system for bacteriophage phi 29 DNA. We have used this system for the isolation of replication activity associated with gene 3 protein (terminal protein) from phi 29-infected Bacillus subtilis cells. We utilized two assay systems: (i) DNA replication dependent on phi 29 DNA with the 5' end covalently linked to terminal protein (DNA-protein) and (ii) the formation of complex between the terminal protein and dAMP. The DNA-replication and the complex-forming activities were purified together through all steps. The complex of terminal protein and dAMP formed in the purified fraction was shown to serve as an effective primer for successive chain elongation in the presence of dNTPs by a pulse-chase experiment. The protein fraction purified from cells infected with a temperature-sensitive phi 29 mutant in gene 3 was thermolabile compared to the wild-type activity in the assay system for complex formation. This shows that the purified fraction having replication activity includes the gene 3 product of phi 29. Both the DNA replication and the complex formation activities are highly specific for phi 29 DNA-protein as template. The product analysis of elongated DNA revealed that the replication starts at both termini of the phi 29 genome. These results are consistent with the basic elements of the protein-priming model for the initiation of linear DNA synthesis.
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