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Bstfsi, An Unusual Isoschizomer of Foki
Bstfsi, An Unusual Isoschizomer of Foki
GENE 09579
M.A. Abdurashitov, E.V. Kileva, N.M. Shinkarenko, A.V. Shevchenko, V.S. Dedkov and
S.Kh. Degtyarev
Received by F. Banany: 12 July 1995; Revised/Accepted: 26 July/l3 September 1995; Received at publishers: 14 December 1995
SUMMARY
BstFSI, a new restriction endonuclease (ENase) from Bacillus stearothermophilus F5, has been discovered. This enzyme
recognizes S-GGATG-3’ and cleaves DNA, generating a 2-base 3’ extension:
5’ -GGATG NN"-3'
3' -CCTAC,NN -5'
BstFSI is an isoschizomer of FokI and seems to be evolutionarily close to other nonpalindromic-recognizing ENases
from thermophilic bacilli.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
a EACGTK
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PUI 3’
b
3’
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Fig. 1. Digest of phage h (lane 2), T7 (lane 3), Ad2 (lane 4), pBR322
(lane 5) and pUC19 (lane 6) DNAs with BstF5I. DNA fragment lengths
marker: digest of phage h DNA with Bmel8I (isoschizomer of AvaII)
(lanes 1 and 7). Reaction products were separated on a 1% agarose gel.
protein. A particular feature of F&I and other class-IIS Kita, K., Kotani, H., Ohta, H., Yanase, H. and Kato, N.: StsI, a new
FokI isoschizomer from Streptococcus sanguis 54, cleaves
restriction endonucleases is a possibility of DNA-pro-
S’GGATG(N) 1,,,143’. Nucleic Acids Res. 20 (1992) 618.
ducts ligation with formation of original molecule Roberts, R.J. and Macelis, D.: Restriction endonucleases and their
(Szybalski et al., 1991). FokI+BstFSI double digest of isoschizomers. Nucleic Acids Res. 21 (1993) 3125-3137.
DNA does not break this property and it creates a new Sugisaki, H. and Kanazawa, S.: New restriction endonucleases from
and simple opportunity to carry out a DNA mutagenesis. Flavobacterium okeanokoites (FokI) and Micrococcus luteus (MU).
Gene 16 (1981) 73-78.
Szybalski, W., Kim, S.C., Hasan, N. and Podhajska, A.: Class-IIS
restriction enzymes - a review. Gene 100 (1991) l-39.
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