RESUMEN

Synthetic DNA substrates containing an acetylaminofluorene (AAF) adduct at each of the three guanine in the G1G2CG3CC sequence were constructed and tested as substrates for reconstituted E.coli (A)BC excinuclease and human excinuclease in HeLa cell-free extract (CFE). The (A)BC excinulcease repaired the three substrates with relative efficiencies of G1:G2:G3 of 100:18:66 in agreement with an earlier report [Seeberg, E., and Fuchs, R.P.P. (1990) Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 87, 191-194]. The same lesions were repaired by the human excinuclease with the strikingly different efficiencies of G1:G2:G3 as 38:100:68. These results reveal that the human excinuclease is affected by the sequence context of the lesion in a different manner than its prokaryotic counterpart.

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Secuencia de Bases , Aductos de ADN , Reparación del ADN , Endodesoxirribonucleasas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Escherichia coli , Aductos de ADN/química , Aductos de ADN/genética , Reparación del ADN/genética , Escherichia coli/enzimología , Guanina/química , Humanos , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Polidesoxirribonucleótidos/síntesis química , Polidesoxirribonucleótidos/genética