Relaxation of supercoiled phosphorothioate DNA by mammalian topoisomerases is inhibited in a base-specific manner
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Relaxation of supercoiled phosphorothioate DNA by mammalian topoisomerases is inhibited in a base-specific manner
Abstract
The nucleotide preferences of calf thymus topoisomerases I and II for recognition of supercoiled DNA have been assessed by the relaxation and cleavage of DNA containing base-specific phosphorothioate substitutions in one strand. The type I enzyme is inhibited to varying degrees by all modified DNAs, but most effectively (by approximately 60%) if deoxyguanosine 5'-O-(1-thiomonophosphate) (dGMP alpha S) is incorporated into negatively supercoiled DNA. A DNA in which all internucleotide linkages of one strand are phosphorothionate is relaxed, most probably via the unsubstituted strand. The type II enzyme is inhibited when deoxyadenosine 5'-O-(1-thiomonophosphate) (dAMP alpha S) or deoxyribosylthymine 5'-O-(1-thiomonophosphate) is incorporated into the DNA substrate, and the course of the relaxation reaction changes from a distributive mode to a predominantly processive mode. A fully substituted DNA is very poorly relaxed by the type II enzyme, illustrating the strict commitment of the enzyme to relaxation via double-strand cleavage. The sense of supercoiling does not affect the inhibition profile of either enzyme. DNA strand breaks introduced by type II topoisomerase in a normal control DNA or deoxycytidine 5'-O-(1-thiomonophosphate)-substituted DNA on treatment with sodium dodecyl sulfate at low ionic strength are prevented by pretreatment with 0.2 M NaCl. In contrast, breaks in DNA having either dAMP alpha S or all four phosphorothioate nucleotides incorporated in one strand are prevented only with higher NaCl concentrations. Thus indicating activity at the phosphorothioate linkage 5' to dA but not 5' to dC. We conclude that topoisomerase II activity occurs preferentially at sites possessing dAMP or dTMP, and that dGMP is involved in DNA recognition by topoisomerase I.
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