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  • Title: Real time monitoring of junction ribonuclease activity of RNase H using chimeric molecular beacons.
    Author: Liu B, Xiang D, Long Y, Tong C.
    Journal: Analyst; 2013 Jun 07; 138(11):3238-45. PubMed ID: 23608820.
    Abstract:
    As a highly conserved damage repair protein, except for hydrolysis of DNA-RNA heteroduplex endonucleolytically, RNase H can cleave RNA-DNA junctions in Okazaki fragment processing through its junction ribonuclease (JRNase) activity. We report here a real time fluorescence method for detecting JRNase activity of RNase H with high accuracy by applying chimeric molecular beacons as substrates. The detection limit of E. coli RNase H is 0.5 U ml(-1). The Km and kcat are 20 nM and 0.6 s(-1), respectively. In addition, we used the method to investigate the effect of chemical drugs on the enzyme and found that both penicillin and streptomycin sulfate inhibit its activity with the IC50 values of 0.2 and 0.07 mM, respectively. Finally, we applied the method to reliably detect the JRNase level in tumor cells. In summary, these data indicate that the simple, rapid and sensitive method can be hopefully applied for high-throughput detection of samples and drug screening in vitro.
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