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E. coli Endonuclease VIII

Catalog #: EG-1007


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Description

Endonuclease VIII from E. coli acts as both an N-glycosylase and an AP-lyase. The N-glycosylase activity releases damaged pyrimidines from double-stranded DNA, generating an apurinic (AP site). The AP-lyase activity cleaves 3´ and 5´ to the AP site leaving a 5´ phosphate and a 3´ phosphate. Damaged bases recognized and removed by Endonuclease VIII include urea, 5, 6- dihydroxythymine, thymine glycol, 5-hydroxy-5- methylhydanton, uracil glycol, 6-hydroxy-5, 6-dihydrothymine and methyltartronylurea (1,2). While Endonuclease VIII is similar to Endonuclease III, Endonuclease VIII has β and δ lyase activity while Endonuclease III has β lyase activity.

Applications
  • Single cell gel electrophoresis (Comet assay) (3,4,5)
  • Alkaline elution (6)
  • Alkaline unwinding (7)
Source An E. coli strain which carries the cloned Endonuclease VIII nei gene
Unit Definition

One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to cleave 1 pmol of a 34 mer oligonucleotide duplex containing a single AP site* in a total reaction volume of 10 µl in 1 hour at 37°C in 1X Endonuclease VIII Reaction Buffer containing 10 pmol of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide duplex.

*An AP site is created by treating 10 pmol of a 34 mer oligonucleotide duplex containing a single uracil residue with 1 unit of Uracil-DNA Glycosylase (UDG) for 2 minutes at 37°C.

Components
  • Endonuclease VIII: 10,000 U/ml in 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0 @ 25°C, 250 mM NaCl, 0.1 mM EDTA, 50% glycerol
  • 10X Reaction Buffer: 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0 @ 25°C, 750 mM NaCl, 10 mM EDTA
Quality Control The absence of endonucleases, exonucleases, E.coli DNA contamination confirmed by appropriate quality tests.
Storage Condition

-20 °C

References
  1. Dizdaroglu, M., Laval, J. and Boiteux, S. (1993). Biochemistry . 32, 12105-12111.
  2. Hatahet, Z. et al. (1994). J. Biol. Chem.. 269, 18814-18820.
  3. Singh, N. et al. (1988). Exp. Cell. Res. . 175, 184-191.
  4. Collins, A. et al. (1993). Carcinogenesis . 14, 1733-1735.
  5. Collins, A. et al. (1996). Environ. Health Perspect . 104, 465-469.
  6. Pflaum, M. et al. (1998). Free Rad. Res. . 29, 585-594.
  7. Hartwig, A. et al. (1996). Toxicol. Lett.. 88, 85-90.
  8. Marks, K. unpublished observation.

     
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