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Unwinding and rewinding of DNA by the RecBC enzyme
A Taylor et al. Cell. 1980 Nov.
Abstract
Under physiological conditions the initial action of the RecBC enzyme (exonuclease V) on duplex DNA is unwinding of the DNA strands. We have examined by electron microscopy the initial products of this unwinding reaction. When such reactions are carried out in the presence of DNA binding protein, unwinding structures are seen both at the terminus of the duplex DNA and at locations remote from the ends of the DNA molecule. Both terminal and internal unwinding structures proceed along DNA at about 300 nucleotides per second, and the single-stranded loops in both types of structure enlarge at about 100 nucleotides per second. In the internal unwindings DNA must be rewound behind the enzyme at about 200 nucleotides per second. The structures do not occur on supercoiled or nicked circular DNA, indicating that free ends are needed for their formation. In the absence of DNA binding protein only internal unwinding structures are seen, suggesting that the internal structures are formed from the terminal unwindings by base-pairing of their unwound single-strand tails. We present a model which incorporates these structures and is consistent with previous observations on the unwinding and degradative actions of the enzyme. In this model the enzyme travels through duplex DNA by unwinding the DNA ahead of itself and rewinding it behind itself. The internal unwindings produced by the RecBC enzyme could be active in initial synapsis step in genetic recombination.
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