Selective binding of actinomycin D and distamycin A to DNA
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- 25 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 10 (22), 7273-7282
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/10.22.7273
Abstract
The exact sites at which a number of drugs inhibit the nick translation of DNA by E.Coli DNA polymerase -I have been pinpointed. In order to do this, a method has been developed double-stranded plasmid DNA from the site of a specifically induced nick. The intial experiments have concentrated on analysis of drug inhibition of nick translation in a 200 nucleotide region near the Eco RI origin of pBR313. Many drugs were found to inhibit nick translation in a highly sequence specific manner. For actinomycin D, Significant inhibition occurred at just four sites in the nucleotide sequence under test and only one sequence (pGpCpGpCpGpGp) gave really strong inhibition. Distamycin A gave a different pattern of inhibition with particularly strong stops in just two of the many A-T rich regions in the DNA. Experiments with caffeine sugest that factors in addition to primary sequence are important in determining where major inhibition occurs.Keywords
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