DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ACTIVITY FOUND IN EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS PRODUCING LYMPHOBLASTOID-CELLS

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CLOUGH, W [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SO CALIF, DIV MOLEC BIOL, LOS ANGELES, CA 90007 USA
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10.1021/bi00588a009
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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A DNase activity from Epstein-Barr (EB) virus producer [human] lymphocyte cell lines which is correlated with viral production and which is not present in virus nonproducer or negative lymphocyte cell lines was purified 220-fold with 20% recovery and characterized. This nuclease copurifies through DEAE-cellulose column chromatography with the EB virus-induced DNA polymerase in EB virus producer cells, which was recently reported by this laboratory, but elutes as a separate peak of activity upon phosphocellulose chromatography. This nuclease activity has a sedimentation coefficient of 4.0 S, a strong divalent cation requirement, an alkaline pH optimum and the ability to utilize native and denatured lymphocyte DNA as substrate, reducing both to monophosphonucleosides.
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