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A DNA-relaxing enzyme was purified 5 000-fold to homogeneity from isolated chloroplasts of Pisum sativum. The enzyme consists of a single polypeptide of 112 kDa. The enzyme was able to relax negatively supercoiled DNA in the absence of ATP. It is resistant to nalidixic acid and novobiocin, and causes a unit change in the linkage number of supercoiled DNA. The enzyme shows optimum activity at 37°C with 50 mM KCl and 10 mM MgCl2. From these properties, the enzyme can be classified as a prokaryotic type I topoisomerase.
Using a partiall purified pea chloroplast DNA polymerase fraction devoid of topoisomerase I activity for in vitro replication on clones containing the pea chloroplast DNA origins of replication, a 2–6-fold stimulation of replication activity was obtained when the purified topoisomerase I was added to the reaction at 70–100 mM KCl. However, when the same reaction was carried out at 125 mM KCl, which does not affect DNA polymerase activity on calf thymus DNA but is completely inhibitory for topoisomerase I activity, a 4-fold drop in activity resulted. Novobiocin, an inhibitor of topoisomerase II, was not found to inhibit the in vitro replication of chloroplast DNA.
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Nielsen, B.L., Tewari, K.K. Pea chloroplast topoisomerase I: purification, characterization, and role in replication. Plant Mol Biol 11, 3–14 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016009
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