S1 nuclease hydrolysis of single-stranded nucleic acids with partial double-stranded configuration.

Biochemistry
G W RushizkyH A Sober

Abstract

The single-strand specific nuclease S1 from Aspergillus oryzae (EC 3.1.4.21) was purified 600-fold in 16% yield from dried mycelia. Determination of the isoelectric point of S1 nuclease as 4.3-4.4 allowed adjustment of chromatographic conditions such that the enzyme was isolated free of contaminating ribonucleases T1 and T2. S1 nuclease so purified was used for removal of single-stranded portions from the RNA of the Escherichia coli phage MS2, which has a helical content of about 65% in vitro. At 23 degrees, increasing amounts of enzyme converted the RNA to mononucleotides in about equimolar base ratios. No small intermediates of chain length 2-8 were found. At 0 degrees, MS2 RNA hydrolysis was slower and reached, in exhaustive digests, a plateau where 70% of the substrate RNA remained insoluble in 66% EtOH. With [32P]MS2 RNA, strip chart counting of 6% acrylamide-6 M urea electrophoresis patterns of such digests gave recoveries of 80-91% in the form of defined oligomer bands. On 2.5% acrylamide-0.5% agarose gels, the molecular weights of the major oligomers were found to range from 25,000 to 41,000. Similar to purified tRNAArg used as a control, these oligomers were not resistant to pancreatic RNase-RNase T1 hydrolysis at 37 d...Continue Reading

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