期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2004
卷号：101
期号：17
页码：6391-6396
DOI：10.1073/pnas.0401031101
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Escherichia coli nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Ndk) catalyzes ATP-dependent synthesis of ribo- and deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates from the cognate diphosphate precursor. Recently, the Ndk polypeptide was reported to be a multifunctional base excision repair nuclease that processed uracil residues in DNA by acting sequentially as a uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein (Ugi)-sensitive uracil-DNA glycosylase, an apurinic/apyrimidiniclyase, and a 3'-phosphodiesterase [Postel, E. H. & Abramczyk, B. M. (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 13247-13252]. Here we demonstrate that the E. coli Ndk polypeptide lacked detectable uracil-DNA glycosylase activity and, hence, was incapable of acting as a uracil-processing DNA repair nuclease. This finding was based on the following observations: (i) uracil-DNA glycosylase activity did not copurify with Ndk activity; (ii) Ndk purified from E. coli ung- cells showed no detectable uracil-DNA glycosylase activity; and (iii) Ndk failed to bind to a Ugi-Sepharose affinity column that tightly bound E. coli uracil-DNA glycosylase (Ung). Collectively, these observations demonstrate that the E. coli Ndk polypeptide does not possess inherent uracil-DNA glycosylase activity.
