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Title: Inhibition of DNA replication, DNA repair synthesis, and DNA polymerases. cap alpha. and delta by butylphenyl deoxyguanosine triphosphate

Conference · · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6064785

Semiconservative DNA replication in growing mammalian cells and ultraviolet (UV)-induced DNA repair synthesis in nongrowing mammalian cells are mediated by one or both of the aphidicolin-sensitive DNA polymerases, ..cap alpha.. and/or delta. They have studied the inhibition of replication and repair synthesis in permeable human cells by N/sup 2/ (p-n-butylphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine-5'-triphosphate (BuPh dGTP), an agent which inhibits polymerase ..cap alpha.. strongly and polymerase delta weakly. Both processes are inhibited by BuPh-dGTP in competition with dGTP. The K/sub i/'s are, for replication, 2-3 ..mu..M and, for repair synthesis, 3-4 ..mu..M, consistent with the involvement of the same DNA polymerase in both processes. Inhibition of isolated human polymerase ..cap alpha.. by BuPh-dGTP is also competitive with dGTP, but the K/sub i/ is approximately 10 nM, several hundred-fold lower than the K/sub i/'s of replication and repair synthesis. Isolated polymerase delta is inhibited by BuPh-dGTP at doses similar to those which inhibit replication and repair synthesis, however, attempts to determine the K/sub i/ of polymerase delta were hampered by the finding that the dependence of delta activity on deoxyribunucleotide concentration is parabolic at low doses. This behavior differs from the behavior of polymerase ..cap alpha.. and of cellular DNA replication and repair synthesis, all of which show a simple, hyperbolic relationship between activity and deoxyribonucleotide concentration. Thus, inhibition of DNA replication and UV induced DNA repair synthesis by BuPh dGTP is quantitatively similar to DNA polymerase delta, but some other characteristics of the cellular processes are more similar to those of polymerase ..cap alpha...

Research Organization:
Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
OSTI ID:
6064785
Report Number(s):
CONF-870644-; TRN: 87-037489
Journal Information:
Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 46:6; Conference: 78. annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 7 Jun 1987
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English