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Endonuclease IV
Recombinant Source37Not Heat Inactivated
Catalog # Size Concentration Price Qty  
M0304L 1,250 units 10,000 units/ml $252.00
M0304S 250 units 10,000 units/ml $63.00
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  • Isolated from a recombinant source
  • Supplied with 10X Reaction Buffer
Description:
Endonuclease IV can act on a variety of oxidative damage in DNA (1). The enzyme is apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease that will hydrolyse intact AP sites in DNA. AP sites are cleaved at the first phosphodiester bond that is 5´ to the lesion leaving a hydroxyl group at the 3´ terminus and a deoxyribose 5´-phosphate at the 5´ terminus. The enzyme also has a 3´ -diesterease activity and can release phosphoglycoaldehyde, intact deoxyribose 5-phosphate and phosphate from the 3´ end of DNA.

Source:
An E.coli strain which carries the cloned Endo IV gene.

Applications:
  • Single cell gel electrophoresis (Comet assay)(2,3,4)
  • Alkaline elution (5)
  • Alkaline unwinding (6)
Reagents Supplied:
NEBuffer 3 (10X)


Enzyme Properties


Heat Inactivation:
No


Reaction & Storage Conditions


Reaction Conditions:
1X NEBuffer 3
Incubate at 37°C.

1X NEBuffer 3:
50 mM Tris-HCl
100 mM NaCl
10 mM MgCl2
1 mM Dithiothreitol
pH 7.9 @ 25°C

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.

*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.

Concentration:
10,000 units/ml

Storage Conditions:
10 mM Tris-HCl
250 mM NaCl
1 mM Dithiothreitol
0.1 mM EDTA
200 µg/ml BSA
50% Glycerol
0.15% Triton X-100
pH 7.4 @ 25°C

Storage Temperature:
-20°C


Notes


Usage notes:
  1. Recommended Dilution for the Comet Assay: 1.104 to 1:105(2,3,4,7).

Quality Control for Current Lot


Quality control values for a specific lot can be found on the datacard which accompanies each product.

Quality Assurance Statement:
Purified free of contaminating exonucleases and endonucleases.

16-Hour Incubation:
A 50 μl reaction containing 1 μg of λDNA (HindIII digest) and 100 units of Endonuclease IV incubated for 16 hours at 37ºC resulted in a DNA pattern free of detectable nuclease degradation as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.

Exonuclease Activity:
Incubation of a 50 μl reaction containing 10 units of Endonuclease IV with 1 μg of a mixture of single and double-stranded [3H] E. coli DNA (205 cpm/μg) for 4 hours at 37ºC released < 0.1% of the total radioactivity.

Endonuclease Activity:
Incubation of a 50 μl reaction containing 100 units of Endonuclease IV with 1 μg of ΦX174 RF I DNA for 4 hours at 37ºC resulted in < 10% conversion to RFII as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.


References


  1. Levin, J. et al. (1988) J. Gen. Physiol., 33, 349-362.
  2. Singh, N. et al. (1961) Experimental Cell Reseach, 175, 184-191.
  3. Collins, A. etal. (1993) Carcinogenesis, 14, 1733-1735.
  4. Collins, A. et al. (1996) Environmental Health Perspectives, 104, 465-469.
  5. Pflaum, M. et al. (1998) Free Rad. Res., 29, 585-594.
  6. Hartwig, A. et al. (1996) Toxicology Letters, 88, 85-90.
  7. Marks, K., New Entgland Biolabs, Inc., unpublished observations.


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