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  • Title: Effect of spermine on cleavage of plasmid DNA by nucleases S1 and Bal 31.
    Author: Shishido K.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1985 Nov 13; 826(2-3):147-50. PubMed ID: 2996605.
    Abstract:
    S1, a single-strand-specific nuclease, cleaves both strands of supercoiled DNA mostly once at unpaired sites. However, all the sites are not cleaved with the same frequency by the enzyme, there being sites of preferential cleavage and infrequent ones. Spermine was found to reduce this cleavage specificity of S1 with supercoiled plasmid DNA. A similar effect of spermine was observed with Bal 31 nuclease. Bal 31 contains in addition to S1-like activity a quasi-processive exonuclease activity that simultaneously degrades both 3'- and 5'-termini of linearized duplex DNA. Spermine stimulated the exonuclease activity. The above results were obtained within the concentration range of spermine that did not induce DNA aggregation.
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