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Jianping Xiao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • characterization of an extremely thermostable restriction enzyme pspgi from a pyrococcus strain and cloning of the pspgi restriction modification system in escherichia coli
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1998
    Co-Authors: Richard D Morgan, Jianping Xiao
    Abstract:

    An extremely thermostable restriction endonuclease, PspGI, was purified from Pyrococcus sp. strain GI-H. PspGI is an isoschizomer of EcoRII and cleaves DNA before the first C in the sequence 5' CCWGG 3' (W is A or T). PspGI digestion can be carried out at 65 to 85 degrees C. To express PspGI at high levels, the PspGI restriction-modification genes (pspGIR and pspGIM) were cloned in Escherichia coli. M.PspGI contains the conserved sequence motifs of alpha-Aminomethyltransferases; therefore, it must be an N4-cytosine methylase. M.PspGI shows 53% similarity to (44% identity with) its isoschizomer, M.MvaI from Micrococcus variabilis. In a segment of 87 amino acid residues, PspGI shows significant sequence similarity to EcoRII and to regions of SsoII and StyD4I which have a closely related recognition sequence (5' CCNGG 3'). PspGI was expressed in E. coli via a T7 expression system. Recombinant PspGI was purified to near homogeneity and had a half-life of 2 h at 95 degrees C. PspGI remained active following 30 cycles of thermocycling; thus, it can be used in DNA-based diagnostic applications.

Jennifer R Toone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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Richard D Morgan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • characterization of an extremely thermostable restriction enzyme pspgi from a pyrococcus strain and cloning of the pspgi restriction modification system in escherichia coli
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1998
    Co-Authors: Richard D Morgan, Jianping Xiao
    Abstract:

    An extremely thermostable restriction endonuclease, PspGI, was purified from Pyrococcus sp. strain GI-H. PspGI is an isoschizomer of EcoRII and cleaves DNA before the first C in the sequence 5' CCWGG 3' (W is A or T). PspGI digestion can be carried out at 65 to 85 degrees C. To express PspGI at high levels, the PspGI restriction-modification genes (pspGIR and pspGIM) were cloned in Escherichia coli. M.PspGI contains the conserved sequence motifs of alpha-Aminomethyltransferases; therefore, it must be an N4-cytosine methylase. M.PspGI shows 53% similarity to (44% identity with) its isoschizomer, M.MvaI from Micrococcus variabilis. In a segment of 87 amino acid residues, PspGI shows significant sequence similarity to EcoRII and to regions of SsoII and StyD4I which have a closely related recognition sequence (5' CCNGG 3'). PspGI was expressed in E. coli via a T7 expression system. Recombinant PspGI was purified to near homogeneity and had a half-life of 2 h at 95 degrees C. PspGI remained active following 30 cycles of thermocycling; thus, it can be used in DNA-based diagnostic applications.

Derek A Applegarth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.