Selection of Primer-Template Sequences That Bind with Enhanced Affinity to Vaccinia Virus E9 DNA Polymerase

A modified SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment) pr,otocol (referred to as PT SELEX) was used to select primer-template (P/T) sequences that bound to the vaccinia virus polymerase catalytic subunit (E9) with enhanced affinity. A single selected P/T sequence (referred to as E9-R5-12) bound in physiological salt conditions with an apparent equilibrium dissociation constant (KD,app) of 93 ± 7 nM. The dissociation rate constant (koff) and binding half-life (t1/2) for E9-R5-12 were 0.083 ± 0.019 min-1 and 8.6 ± 2.0 min, respectively. The values indicated a several-fold greater binding ability compared to controls, which bound too weakly to be accurately measured under the conditions employed. Loop-back DNA constructs with 3'-recessed termini derived from E9-R5-12 also showed enhanced binding when the hybrid region was 21 nucleotides or more. Although the sequence of E9-R5-12 matched perfectly over a 12-base-pair segment in the coding region of the virus B20 protein, there was no clear indication that this sequence plays any role in vaccinia virus biology, or a clear reason why it promotes stronger binding to E9. In addition to E9, five other polymerases (HIV-1, Moloney murine leukemia virus, and avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptases (RTs), and Taq and Klenow DNA polymerases) have demonstrated strong sequence binding preferences for P/Ts and, in those cases, there was biological or potential evolutionary relevance. For the HIV-1 RT, sequence preferences were used to aid crystallization and study viral inhibitors. The results suggest that several other DNA polymerases may have P/T sequence preferences that could potentially be exploited in various protocols.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 14(2022), 2 vom: 10. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

DeStefano, Jeffrey J [VerfasserIn]
Iseni, Frédéric [VerfasserIn]
Tarbouriech, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

DNA, Viral
DNA polymerase, vaccinia virus
DNA polymerase sequence preference
DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase
E9
EC 2.7.7.-
EC 2.7.7.49
EC 2.7.7.7
HIV Reverse Transcriptase
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SELEX
Vaccinia virus polymerase
Viral Proteins

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Date Completed 14.03.2022

Date Revised 21.09.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/v14020369

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337474672