Abstract
Incubation of extracts of phi 29-infected Bacillus subtilis with [alpha-32P]dATP produced a labeled protein having the electrophoretic mobility of p3, the 5'-terminal protein of phi 29 DNA. The reaction product was resistant to treatment with micrococcal nuclease, phosphatase, and RNases A and T1 and sensitive to proteinase K. Incubation of the 32P-labeled protein with piperidine under conditions in which the phi 29 DNA-protein p3 linkage is hydrolyzed released 5'-dAMP. The reaction with [alpha-32P]dATP was strongly inhibited by anti-p3 serum and required the preence of phi 29 DNA-protein p3 complex; no reaction took place with proteinase K-treated phi29 DNA. These results, together with those of acid hydrolysis and partial proteolysis, indicated that a covalent complex between protein p3 and 5'-dAMP is formed in vitro. The initiation complex (protein p3-dAMP) formed in the presence of 0.5 microM [alpha-32P]dATP can be elongated by addition of 40 microM dNTPs. Treatment with piperidine of the product elongated in the presence of 2',3'-dideoxycytidine 5'-triphosphate released the expected oligonucleotides, 9 and 12 bases long, taking into account the sequence at the left and right DNA ends, respectively.
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Created | 19 years, 3 months ago (May 31, 2006, 4:53 a.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 4 months ago (April 13, 2022, 11:18 a.m.) |
Indexed | 3 months, 2 weeks ago (May 18, 2025, 10:24 a.m.) |
Issued | 43 years ago (Sept. 1, 1982) |
Published | 43 years ago (Sept. 1, 1982) |
Published Online | 43 years ago (Sept. 1, 1982) |
Published Print | 43 years ago (Sept. 1, 1982) |
@article{Pe_alva_1982, title={Initiation of phage phi 29 DNA replication in vitro: formation of a covalent complex between the terminal protein, p3, and 5’-dAMP.}, volume={79}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.79.18.5522}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.79.18.5522}, number={18}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Peñalva, M A and Salas, M}, year={1982}, month=sep, pages={5522–5526} }