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Specificity of substrate recognition by the EcoRI restriction endonuclease
B Polisky et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1975 Sep.
Abstract
The substrate specificity of the EcoRI restriction endonuclease can be varied in vitro by changing the pH and the ionic environment of the reaction. Phosphodiester bond cleavage occurs at a DNA hexanucleotide sequence d(N-G-A-A-T-T-C-N)/d(N-C-T-T-A-A-G-N) when the ionic strength is high, 100 mM Tris-HCl, 50 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, and the pH is approximately 7.3. Lowering the ionic strength to 25 mM Tris-HCl, 2 mM MgCl2, and adjusting the pH to 8.5 reduces the recognition specificity of the EcoRI endonuclease to the tetranucleotide sequence, d(N-A-A-T-T-N)/d(N-T-T-A-A-N). The enzymatic activity responsible for this substrate recognition is referred to as EcoRI. Cleavage of pVH51 plasmid DNA under EcoRI conditions results in a number of partial digest fragments, some of which disappear slowly over a prolonged digestion period. This suggests that different recognition sites are cleaved at different rates. Comparison of DNA fragment patterns of modified and unmodified pVH51 DNA indicates that the canonical EcoRI sequence is the most rapidly cleaved site under EcoRI conditions. DNA modified in vivo by the EcoRI methylase is not cleaved by the EcoRI endonuclease under standard conditions, but is cleaved under EcoRI conditions at sites other than the standard EcoRI substrate.
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