PMID: 11341931May 9, 2001Paper

Structure-based sequence alignment of type-II restriction endonucleases

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
T Deva, S Krishnaswamy

Abstract

The type-II restriction endonucleases generally do not share appreciable amino acid sequence homology. The crystal structures of restriction endonucleases EcoRI and BamHI have shown these enzymes to possess striking 3D-structural resemblance, i.e., they have a similar overall fold and similar active sites, though they possess <23% sequence identity. Structural superimposition of EcoRI, BamHI, EcoRV, and PvuII based on active site residues led to sequence alignments which showed nine possible sequence motifs. EcoRV and PvuII show a more similar pattern than EcoRI and BamHI suggesting that they belong to a different subgroup. The motifs are characterized by charged and/or hydrophobic residues. From other studies on the structure of these endonucleases, three of the motifs could be implicated in DNA binding, three in forming the active site and one in dimer formation. However, the motifs were not identifiable by regular sequence alignment methods. It is found that motif IX in BamHI is formed by reverse sequence order and the motif IX in PvuII is formed from the symmetry related monomer of the dimer. The inter-motif distance is also quite different in these cases. Of the nine motifs, motif III has been earlier identified as contain...Continue Reading

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