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：1974
卷号：71
期号：3
页码：858-862
DOI：10.1073/pnas.71.3.858
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Hemoglobin mRNA and (rA)n{middle dot}(dT)10 have been used as primer-templates in a kinetic study of DNA synthesis with Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (DNA nucleotidyl transferase, EC 2.7.7.7 ) and Mason-Pfizer monkey virus reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA polymerase). The rate versus enzyme concentration curve is sigmoidal and is consistent with a cooperative phenomenon. The results could be interpreted in terms of the formation of an active complex containing enzyme dimers (or oligomers) on the primer-template. We have also observed sigmoidal kinetics in rate versus deoxynucleotide triphosphate concentration. These results are consistent with an allosteric mechanism in which the triphosphates act as both modifiers and DNA precursors. In the critical range, a 6- to 8-fold increase in both enzyme and triphosphate concentrations can lead to a 1500-fold increase in the rate of synthesis on an RNA template. Thus, small changes in enzyme and precursor concentrations could play a regulatory role in vivo.
