Journal
VIROLOGY
Volume 352, Issue 2, Pages 466-476Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.05.007
Keywords
poxvirus; vaccinia; resolvase; resolving enzyme; A22R; T7 endonuclease I; Holliday junction; RNase H
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- NIAID NIH HHS [T32 AI 07324] Funding Source: Medline
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Vaccinia virus encodes an enzyme, A22R, required during DNA replication for cleaving viral DNA concatamers to yield unit-length viral genomes. The concatamer junctions contain inverted repeat sequences that can be extruded as cruciforms, yielding Holliday junctions. Previous work indicated that A22R can cleave Holliday junctions in vitro. To investigate the mechanism of action of A22R, we have optimized reaction conditions and characterized the sequence specificity of cleavage. We found that addition of 20% dimethylsulfoxide boosted product formation six-fold, resulting in improved sensitivity of cleavage assays. To analyze cleavage specificity, we took advantage of mobile Holliday junctions, in which branch migration allowed sampling of many DNA sequences. We found that A22R weakly favors cleavage at the sequence 5'-(G/C)down arrow(A/T)-3', and so is much less sequence specific than its Escherichia coli relative, RuvC. Analysis of the reaction products revealed that A22R cleaves to leave a 3' hydroxyl at the cleaved phosphodiester bond. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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