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- Document 0252
- DOCN M9620252
- TI The orientation of binding of human immunodeficiency virus reverse
- transcriptase on nucleic acid hybrids.
- DT 9602
- AU DeStefano JJ; Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland,
- College Park; 20742, USA.
- SO Nucleic Acids Res. 1995 Oct 11;23(19):3901-8. Unique Identifier :
- AIDSLINE MED/96038846
- AB The binding of HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) to heteroduplexes was
- examined using a substrate consisting of a 42 nt chimeric nucleic acid
- composed. (5'-->3') of 23 nt of RNA and 19 of DNA. This chimera was
- hybridized to an internal region of a relatively long complementary DNA
- or RNA. When the chimera was bound to DNA and conditions limiting
- cleavage to a single binding event between the enzyme and substrate were
- employed initial RNase H-directed cleavages occurred 19-21 nt from the
- chimera 5'-terminus. A 42 nt strand identical in sequence to the chimera
- and composed of only RNA was cleaved at the same locations. Reducing the
- length of the DNA portion of the chimera from 19 to 7 nt did not alter
- the cleavage positions, suggesting that cleavage was not coordinated by
- the DNA 3'-terminus. Under the same conditions cleavage was not detected
- when the chimera was bound to RNA. In contrast, addition of dNTPs to the
- DNA 3'-terminus of the chimera occurred only when the chimera was bound
- to RNA. The results support preferable binding of RT to RNA-DNA versus
- DNA-DNA hybrid regions and a model in which the orientation of binding
- to heteroduplexes is 5'-->3' (relative to the RNA strand), polymerase to
- RNase H active site, with sites associated with the DNA and RNA strand
- respectively.
- DE Base Sequence Binding Sites DNA, Complementary/CHEMISTRY/METABOLISM
- Heparin/PHARMACOLOGY HIV/*ENZYMOLOGY Molecular Sequence Data Nucleic
- Acid Heteroduplexes/CHEMISTRY/*METABOLISM Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Recombinant Proteins/METABOLISM Ribonuclease H, Calf Thymus/METABOLISM
- RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/*METABOLISM RNA,
- Complementary/CHEMISTRY/METABOLISM Structure-Activity Relationship
- Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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