Abstract:
The present invention relates to recombinant DNA encoding the PpuMI restriction endonuclease as well as PpuMI methylase, expression of PpuMI restriction endonuclease and PpuMI methylase in E. coli cells containing the recombinant DNA.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to recombinant DNA encoding the BsaWI restriction endonuclease as well as BsaWI methylase, expression of BsaWI restriction endonuclease and BsaWI methylase in E. coli cells containing the recombinant DNA.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a site-specific endonuclease which recognizes a specific nucleotide sequence, to a gene coding for the endonuclease, to a recombinant vector containing the gene, to a transformant containing the vector, and to a process for producing the endonuclease.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to recombinant DNA which encodes the MlyI restriction endonuclease as well as the MlyI and BstNBII methyltransferases and expression of MlyI restriction endonuclease and M.BStNBII in E. coli cells containing the recombinant DNA.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a novel restriction endonuclease and its DNA obtainable from Helicobacter pylori CH4 (NEB#1236), hereinafter referred to as “HpyCH4III”, which endonuclease: (1) recognizes the nucleotide sequence 5′-ACNGT-3′ in a double-stranded DNA molecule as shown below, 5′-ACN↓GT-3′ 3′-TG↑NCA-5′ (wherein G represents guanine, C represents cytosine, A represents adenine, T represents thymine and N represents either G, C, A, or T); (2) cleaves said sequence in the phosphodiester bonds between the N and G as indicated with the arrows; and (3) cleaves double-stranded PhiX174 DNA to produce 15 fragments, including fragments of 1284, 814, 536, 517, 454, 404, 302, 292, 270 and 222 base pairs, and 5 fragments smaller than 200 base pairs.
Abstract:
RsaI, a restriction enzyme from the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides, recognizes the DNA sequence 5′-GTAC-3′. Because RsaI is commercially valuable, we sought to overproduce it by cloning the genes for RsaI and its accompanying, modification, enzyme. The ‘methylase-selection’ method, the customary procedure for cloning restriction and modification genes, was applied to RsaI. The method yielded clones containing the methylase gene (rsaIM), but none containing both the methylase gene and the restriction gene (rsaIR). Inverse-PCR was then used to recover sections of the DNA downstream of rsaIM. These sections were sequenced, and the sequences were joined in silico to reveal the gene organization of the RsaI R-M system. By comparing the coding potential of the DNA with the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified RsaI restriction enzyme, we discovered that the RsaI R and M genes, rather than being adjacent-the situation that pertains in most R-M systems-are separated by an intervening gene of unknown function. Based on this information, the rsaIR gene was cloned by PCR instead of methylase-selection. These new clones proved to be highly unstable, however, even in the presence of the rsaIM gene. Various attempts were made to stabilize the gene, but most met with failure. Stability was finally achieved by introducing a second methylase gene, mjaVM, to augment the protection provided by rsaIM, and by tightly controlling the expression of rsaIR using a special two-promoter, anti-sense transcription, expression vector.
Abstract:
The present invention provides recombinant Onc (rOnc) compositions and methods. Recombinant Onc proteins of the invention have an amino terminal methionine and comprise an Onc polypeptide. The amino terminal methionine of the protein allows for recombinant production in a bacterial host cell. Cleaving the amino terminal methionine exposes the amino terminal glutamine of the polypeptide. The Onc polypeptide has an amino terminal glutamine. Cyclization of the amino terminal glutamine of the polypeptide to a pyroglutamyl residue provides rOnc polypeptides and proteins have anti-cancer and anti-viral activity.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to recombinant DNA that encodes the TspRI restriction endonuclease as well as TspRI methylase, expression of TspRI restriction endonuclease and TspRI methylase in E. coli cells containing the recombinant DNA.
Abstract:
A human DNase polypeptide and DNA (RNA) encoding such polypeptide and a procedure for producing such polypeptide by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptide for preventing and/or treating bronchopulmonary conditions. Diagnostic assays for identifying mutations in nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide of the present invention and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide of the present invention are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to recombinant DNA which encodes the BpmI restriction endonuclease as well as BpmI methyltransferase, expression of BpmI restriction endonuclease from E. coli cells containing the recombinant DNA. BpmI endonuclease is a fusion of two distinct elements with a possible structural domains of restriction-methylation-specificity (R-M-S). This domain organization is analogous to the type I restriction-modification system with three distinct subunits, restriction, methylation, and specificity (R, M, and S). Because BpmI is quite distinct to other type IIs restriction enzymes, it is proposed that BpmI belongs to a subgroup of type II restriction enzymes called type IIf (f stands for fusion of restriction-modification-specificity domains). The Type IIf group of restriction enzyme includes Eco57I, BpmI, GsuI, BseRI and some other restriction enzymes that cut downstream sequences at long distance, 10-20 bp downstream of recognition sequence, such as MmeI (N20/N18)).