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Science 7 May 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5109, pp. 778 - 783
DOI: 10.1126/science.7683443

Articles

Science, Vol 260, Issue 5109, 778-783
Copyright © 1993 by American Association for the Advancement of Science


articles

Structure-specific endonucleolytic cleavage of nucleic acids by eubacterial DNA polymerases

V Lyamichev, MA Brow, and JE Dahlberg

Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison 53706.

Previously known 5' exonucleases of several eubacterial DNA polymerases have now been shown to be structure-specific endonucleases that cleave single-stranded DNA or RNA at the bifurcated end of a base-paired duplex. Cleavage was not coupled to synthesis, although primers accelerated the rate of cleavage considerably. The enzyme appeared to gain access to the cleavage site by moving from the free end of a 5' extension to the bifurcation of the duplex, where cleavage took place. Single-stranded 5' arms up to 200 nucleotides long were cleaved from such a duplex. Essentially any linear single-stranded nucleic acid can be targeted for specific cleavage by the 5' nuclease of DNA polymerase through hybridization with an oligonucleotide that converts the desired cleavage site into a substrate.


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