On the nature of the cytosine-methylated sequence in DNA of Bacillus brevis var. G.-B.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
B F Vanyushin, A P Dobritsa

Abstract

On growing the cells of Bacillus brevis S methionine-auxotroph mutant in the presence of [Me-3H]methionine, practically all the radioactivity incorporated into DNA is found to exist in 5-methylcytosine and N6-methyladenine. The analysis of pyrimidine isopliths isolated from DNA shows that radioactivity only exists in mono- and dinucleotides and the content of 5-methylcytosine in R-m5 C-R and R-m5 C-T-R oligonucleotides is equal. The analysis of dinucleotides isolated from DNA by means of pancreatic DNAase hydrolysis allows the nature of purine residues neighbouring 5-methylcytosine to be identified and shows that 5-methylcytosine localizes in G-m5 C-A and G-m5 C-Tr fragments. B. brevis S DNA methylase modifying cytosine residues recognizes the GCA/TGC degenerate nucleotide sequence which is a part of the following complementary structure with a two-fold rotational axis of symmetry: (5')...N'-G-C-T-G-C-N... (3') (3')...N-C-G-A-C-G-N'... (5') (Methylated cytosine residues are askerisked). Cytosine-modifying DNA methylase activity is isolated from B. brevis cells; it is capable of methylating in vitro homologous and heterologous DNA. Hence DNA in bacterial cells can be undermethylated. This enzyme methylates cytosine residues in n...Continue Reading

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