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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 205-212Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi992105o
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Using a fluorescent sensor for inorganic phosphate, the kinetics of ATP hydrolysis by PcrA helicase were measured in the presence of saturating concentrations of oligonucleotides of various lengths. There is a rapid phase of inorganic phosphate release that is equivalent to several turnovers of the ATPase, followed by slower steady-state ATP hydrolysis. The magnitude of the rapid phase is governed by the length of single-stranded DNA, while the slow phase is independent of its length. A kinetic model is presented in which the rapid phase is associated with translocation along single-stranded DNA, after the PcrA binds randomly along the DNA. There is a linear relationship between the length of single-stranded DNA and both the duration and amplitude of the rapid phase. These data suggest that the translocation activity occurs at 50 bases/s in unidirectional single-base steps, each requiring the hydrolysis of 1 ATP molecule.
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