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. 1980 Oct;77(10):6194–6198. doi: 10.1073/pnas.77.10.6194

An endonuclease isolated from Epstein-Barr virus-producing human lymphoblastoid cells.

W Clough
PMCID: PMC350241  PMID: 6255479

Abstract

An endonuclease has been isolated from human B lymphoblastoid cells that copurifies with an exonucleolytic activity and has been shown to produce double-strand breaks and a high proportion of single-strandedness in phage lambda DNA in vitro. The data are consistent with a model in which single-strand cuts are made by the endonucleolytic activity, possibly in A+T-rich regions of the DNA, followed by creation of single-stranded regions (gaps) precessing from the site of a cut. Generation of overlapping gaps on opposite strands or of a gap opposite a nick would lead to the creation of the banding patterns that we have seen on electrophoretic gels. This endonucleolytic activity copurifies with other enzymes induced by Epstein-Barr virus that relate to the process of viral DNA replication in productively infected cells. However, a more general role is proposed for this class of eukaryotic endonuclease activities. A marked degree of single-strandedness has been found in the replicating DNAs of many eukaryotes, ad these gaps could be generated by endonucleases with associated exonucleolytic activity such as that reported here. This Epstein-Barr virus-induced nuclease activity has been shown to resemble the recBC nuclease isolated from the prokaryote Escherichia coli and also the endonuclease isolated from the eukaryote Chlamydomonas.

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