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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 14, Pages 4313-4322Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi036033j
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Phage-encoded resolvase T7 endonuclease I is a structure-specific endonuclease. The enzyme acts on a broad spectrum of substrates with a variety of DNA structures. The enzyme is a dimer with two separated catalytic domains connected by an elongated beta-sheet bridge. The activities of enzymes with mutations in the beta-bridge segment were studied. Mutations that did not affect catalytic domain folding and function but did alter the relative positions of these domains retained catalytic activity but with altered specificity and metal ion dependence. Our results suggest that the enzyme recognizes its substrates by DNA conformation exclusion and offer a simple explanation for the broad substrate specificity of phage resolvase.
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