Patent Application: US-65832296-A

Abstract:
an endonuclease and its method of use for the detection of mutations in targeted polynucleotide sequences are provided , which facilitate the localization and identification of mutations , mismatches and genetic polymorphisms .

Description:
the enzymatic basis for the maintenance of correct base sequences during dna replication has been extensively studied in e . coli . this organism has evolved a mismatch repair pathway that corrects a variety of dna basepair mismatches in hemimethylated dna as well as insertions / deletions up to four nucleotides long . cells deficient in this pathway mutate more frequently , hence the genes are called muts , mutl and muth etc . muts protein binds to the mismatch and muth is the endonuclease that incises the dna at a gatc site on the strand in which the a residue is not methylated . mutl forms a complex with muth and muts during repair . homologs of muts and mutl , but not muth exist in many systems . in yeast msh2 ( muts homolog ) can bind to a mismatch by itself , but a complex of two mutl homologs ( mlh and pms1 ) plus a msh2 has been observed . the human homolog hmsh2 has evolved to bind to larger dna insertions up to 14 nucleotides in length , which frequently arise by mechanisms such as misalignment at the microsatelite repeats in humans . a role for hmlh1 in loop repair is unclear . mutations in any one of these human homologs were shown to be responsible for the hereditary form of non - polyposis colon cancer ( 27 , 28 ). celery contains over 40 μg of psoralen , a photoreactive intercalator , per gram of tissue ( 3 ). as a necessity , celery may possess a high capability for the repair of lesions of insertion , deletion , and other psoralen photoadducts . single - strandedness at the site of the lesion is common to base substitution and dna loop lesions . the data in the following examples demonstrate that celery possesses ample mismatch - specific endonuclease to deal with these potentially mutagenic events . it has been found that the incision at a mismatch site by cel i is greatly stimulated by the presence of a dna polymerase . for a dna loop containing a single nucleotide insertion , cel i substrate preference is a ≧ g & gt ; t & gt ; c . for base - substitution mismatched basepairs , cel i preference is c / c ≧ c / a ˜ c / t ≧ g / g & gt ; a / c ˜ a / a ˜ t / c & gt ; t / g ˜ g / t . about . g / a ˜ a / g & gt ; t / t . cel i shows a broad ph optimum from ph 6 to ph 9 . to a lesser extent compared with loop incisions , cel i is also a single - stranded dnase , and a weak exonuclease . cel i possesses novel biochemical activities when compared to other nucleases . mung bean nuclease is a 39 kd nuclease that is a single - stranded dnase and rnase , and has the ability to nick dna at destabilized regions and dna loops ( 19 - 22 ). however , it has a ph optimum at 5 . 0 . it is not known whether mung bean nuclease activity can be stimulated by a dna polymerase as in the case of cel i . thus cel i and mung bean nuclease appear to be different enzymes ; however this has not yet been conclusively confirmed . the mechanism responsible for the amplitaq dna polymerase stimulation of the cel i activity is presently unknown . one possibility is that the dna polymerase has a high affinity for the 3 &# 39 ;-- oh group produced by the cel i incision at the mismatch and displaces cel i simply by competition for the site . cel i may have different affinities for the 3 &# 39 ;-- oh termini generated by incisions at different mismatches , thereby attenuating the extent that amplitaq dna polymerase can stimulate its activity . the use of a dna polymerase to displace a repair endonuclease in dna repair was also observed for the uvrabc endonuclease mechanism ( 25 ). it was shown that the uvrabc endonuclease does not turnover unless it is in the presence of dna polymerase i . the protein factors in vivo that can stimulate the cel i activity may not be limited to dna polymerases . it is possible that dna helicases , dna ligases , 3 &# 39 ;- 5 &# 39 ; exonucleases or proteins that bind to dna termini may perform that function . it is important to note that a 5 &# 39 ;- labeled substrate can be used to show a cel i incision band in a denaturing polyacrylamide gel . recently , a putative human all - type mismatch incision activity ( 24 ) was shown to be related to the human topoisomerase i . this enzyme is unable to release itself from a 5 &# 39 ;- labeled substrate after mismatch nicking due to the formation of a covalent enzyme - dna intermediate with the 3 &# 39 ; terminus of the dna nick ( 26 ). this covalent protein - dna complex cannot migrate into the denaturing polyacrylamide gel to form a band . cel i mismatch nicking has been demonstrated with 5 &# 39 ; labeled substrates . therefore , cel i is not a plant equivalent of the topoisomerase i - like human all - type mismatch repair activity . cel i appears to be a mannopyranosyl glycoprotein as judged by its tight binding to concanavalin a - sepharose resin and by the staining of cel i with the periodic acid - schiff glycoprotein stain . insofar as it is known , no repair enzyme has been demonstrated to be a glycoprotein . glycoproteins are often found to be excreted from the cell , on cellular membranes or secreted into organelles . however , glycoproteins have also been shown to exist in the nucleus for important functions . the level of a 100 kda stress glycoprotein was found to increase in the nucleus when gerbil fibroma cells are subjected to heat shock treatment ( 27 ). transcription factors for rna polymerase ii in human cells are known to be modified with n - acetylglucosamine residues ( 28 , 29 ). recently , lactoferrin , an iron - binding glycoprotein , was found to bind to dna in the nucleus of human cells and it activated transcription in a sequence - specific manner ( 30 ). the nuclei of cells infected with some viruses are known to contain viral glycoproteins ( 31 - 33 ). these examples where glycoproteins are known to exist inside the nucleus , not merely on the nuclear membrane or at the nuclear pores , tend to show that glycosylated proteins may be important in the nucleus . cel i appears to be an example of a glycoprotein that can participate in dna repair . the properties of the celery mismatch endonuclease cel i resemble those of single - stranded nucleases . the best - suited substrates for cel i are dna loops and base - substitution mismatches such as the c / c mismatch . in contrast , loops greater than 4 nucleotides and the c / c mismatch are the substrates worst - suited for the e . coli muthls mismatch repair system ( 1 , 2 ). thus cel i is an enzyme that possesses novel mismatch endonuclease activity . the following examples are provided to describe the invention in further detail . these examples , which set forth the best mode presently contemplated for carrying out the invention , are intended to illustrate and not to limit the invention . two different cel i preparations were made up as described below . their properties are similar except that the less pure preparation ( mono q fraction ) may contain protein factors that can stimulate the cel i activity . 100 gm of celery stalk was homogenized in a waring blender with 100 ml of a buffer of 0 . 1m tris - hcl ph 7 . 0 with 10 μm phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride ( pmsf ) ( buffer a ) at 4 ° c . for 2 minutes . the mixture was cleared by centrifugation , and the supernatant was stored at - 70 ° c . the extract was fractionated by anion exchange chromatography on a fplc mono q hr5 / 10 column . the bound cel i nuclease activity was eluted with a linear gradient of salt at about 0 . 15m kcl . 7 kg of celery at 4 ° c . was extracted with a juicer and adjusted with 10x buffer a to give a final concentration of 1x buffer a . the extract was concentrated with a 25 % to 85 % saturation ammonium sulfate precipitation step . the final pellet was dissolved in 250 ml of buffer a and dialyzed against 0 . 5m kcl in buffer a . the solution was incubated with 10 ml of concanavalin a - sepharose resin ( sigma ) overnight at 4 ° c . the slurry was packed into a 2 . 5 cm diameter column and washed with 0 . 5m kcl in buffer a . the bound cel i was eluted with 60 ml of 0 . 3m α - d mannose , 0 . 5m kcl in buffer a at 65 ° c . the cel i was dialyzed against a solution of 25 mm kpo 4 , 10 μm pmsf , ph 7 . 4 ( buffer b ), and applied to a phosphocellulose column that had been equilibrated in the buffer b . the bound enzyme was eluted with a linear gradient of kcl in buffer b . the peak of cel i activity from this column was further fractionated by size on a superose 12 fplc column in 0 . 2m kcl , 1 mm zncl 2 , 10 μm pmsf , 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 8 . the center of the cel i peak from this gel filtration step was used as the purified cel i in this study . a protein band of about 34 , 000 daltons is visible when 5 micrograms of cel i of the superose 12 fraction was visualized with coomassie blue staining or carbohydrate staining ( periodic acid - schiff base mediated staining kit , sigma chemicals ( 5 )) on a 15 % polyacrylamide sds page gel as shown in fig1 . a second band of approximately 36 , 000 daltons was also visible in the gel . both bands were stained with the glycoprotein specific stain . the subtle mobility differences observed in the two bands may be due to differential glycosylation . alternatively , there may be a contaminant in the preparation which co - purifies with cel i . protein concentrations of the samples were determined by the bicinchoninic acid protein assay ( 4 , pierce ). following purification of cel i enzyme , mutational analysis on experimental and clinical dna substrates were performed in a suitable gel system . cel i recognized and cleaved dna at a variety of mismatches , deletions and insertions . the following examples describe in greater detail the manner in which mutational analysis is practiced according to this invention . dna heteroduplex substrates of 64 basepairs long were constructed containing mismatched basepairs or dna loops which were prepared using similar methods reported in jones and yeung ( 34 ). the dna loops are composed of different nucleotides and various loop sizes as illustrated in fig2 . the dna duplexes were labeled at one of the four termini so that dna endonuclease incisions at the mispaired nucleotides could be identified as a truncated dna band on a denaturing dna sequencing gel . the oligonucleotides were synthesized on an applied biosystems dna synthesizer and purified by using a denaturing page gel in the presence of 7m urea at 50 ° c . the purified single - stranded oligonucleotides were hybridized with appropriate opposite strands . the dna duplex , containing mismatches or not , was purified by using a nondenaturing page gel . dna was eluted from the gel slice by using electro - elution in a centricon unit in an amicon model 57005 electroeluter . the upper reservoir of this unit has been redesigned to include water - tight partitions that prevent cross - contamination . the sequences of the substrates used are set forth below : seq . i . d . no . 2 is the top strand of substrate nos . 1 , 12 , 13 , and 14 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcgcgtcat gtgtggaatt gtgattaaaa tcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 3 is the bottom strand of substrate nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 15 : seq . i . d . no . 4 is the top strand of substrate no . 2 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcggcgtca tgtgtggaat tgtgattaaa atcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 5 is the top strand of substrate no . 3 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcgtcgtca tgtgtggaat tgtgattaaa atcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 6 is the top strand of substrate no . 4 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcgacgtca tgtgtggaat tgtgattaaa atcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 7 is the top strand of substrate no . 5 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcgccgtca tgtgtggaat tgtgattaaa atcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 8 is the top strand of substrate nos . 6 , 7 , 8 , 18 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcacgtcat gtgtggaatt gtgattaaaa tcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 9 is the top strand of substrate nos . 9 , 10 , 11 , 19 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctcccgtcat gtgtggaatt gtgattaaaa tcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 10 is the top strand of substrate nos . 15 , 16 , 17 , 20 : 5 &# 39 ;- ccgtcatgct agttcacttt atgcttccgg ctctcgtcat gtgtggaatt gtgattaaaa tcg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 11 is the bottom strand of substrate nos . 6 , 9 , 12 , 20 : 5 &# 39 ;- gcgattttaa tcacaattcc acacatcacg agagccggaa gcataaagtg aactagcatg acg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 12 is the bottom strand of substrate nos . 8 , 13 , 16 , 19 : 5 &# 39 ;- gcgattttaa tcacaattcc acacatcacg ggagccggaa gcataaagtg aactagcatg acg - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . i . d . no . 13 is the bottom strand of substrate nos . 11 , 14 , 17 , 18 : 5 &# 39 ;- gcgattttaa tcacaattcc acacatcacg tgagccggaa gcataaagtg aactagcatg acg - 3 &# 39 ;. fifty to 100 fmol of 5 &# 39 ; 32 p !- labeled substrate described in example ii were incubated with the mono q cel i preparation in 20 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 4 , 25 mm kcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 for 30 minutes at temperatures of 0 ° c . to 80 ° c . from one half to 2 . 5 units of amplitaq dna polymerase was added to the nuclease assay reaction . ten μm dntp was included in the reaction mixture where indicated ( fig2 & amp ; 5 ). the 20 μl reaction was terminated by adding 10 μl of 1 . 5 % sds , 47 mm edta , and 75 % formamide plus tracking dyes and analyzed on a denaturing 15 % page gel in 7m urea at 50 ° c . an autoradiogram was used to visualize the radioactive bands . chemical dna sequencing ladders were included as size markers . incision sites were accurately determined by co - electrophoresis of the incision band and the dna sequencing ladder in the same lane . the effect of temperature on cel i incision activity at single - nucleotide dna loop and nucleotide substitutions the cel i fraction eluted from the mono q chromatography of the celery extract was found to specifically nick dna heteroduplexes containing dna loops with a single extrahelical guanine ( substrate # 2 ) or thymine residue (# 3 ), but not the perfectly basepaired dna duplex # 1 as shown in fig3 . in these experiments fifty fmol of heteroduplex # 2 ( lanes 3 - 9 ), # 3 ( lanes 10 - 16 ), perfectly basepaired duplex # 1 ( lanes 17 - 23 ) and single - stranded dna substrate ( lanes 24 - 30 ), each labeled at the 5 &# 39 ;- terminus with γ - 32 p ! atp and t4 polynucleotide kinase at about 6000 ci / mmol , were incubated with 0 . 5 μl ( 10 μg ) of the mono q fraction of the cel i preparation in 20 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 4 , 25 mm kcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 for 30 minutes at various temperatures . each 20 μl reaction was terminated by adding 10 μl of 1 . 5 % sds , 47 mm edta , and 75 % formamide containing xylene cyanol and bromophenol blue . ten μl of the sample was loaded onto a 15 % polyacrylamide , 7m urea denaturing dna sequencing gel at about 50 ° c ., and subjected to electrophoretic separation and autoradiography as previously reported ( 7 ). the g + a and the t chemical sequencing reactions were performed as described ( 7 ) and used as size markers . cel i incision produced bands at about 35 nucleotides long . lines are drawn from the positions of the incision bands to the phosphodiester bonds ( i and ii ) nicked by the endonuclease in the reference sequencing ladder . for a 5 &# 39 ;- labeled substrate , when a nuclease nicks 5 &# 39 ; of a nucleotide and produces a 3 &# 39 ;- oh terminus , the truncated band runs half a nucleotide spacing slower than the band for that nucleotide in the chemical dna sequencing reaction product lane ( 34 ). substrate # 2 can basepair in two conformations because the inserted g is within a cgcg sequence . therefore either the g residue in the second or the third nucleotide position can become unpaired , possibly extrahelical in conformation , when this duplex is hybridized : accordingly , two mismatch incision bands were observed , each correlating to the phosphodiester bond immediately 3 &# 39 ; of the unpaired nucleotide . see fig3 lanes 3 - 9 . this slippage can occur in the target sequence only when g or c is in the mismatched top strand . therefore , the non - paired t residue in substrate # 3 gave one incision band at the same relative position as the upper band derived from the substrate # 2 . see fig3 lanes 10 - 16 . these gel mobilities are consistent with the production of a 3 &# 39 ;- oh group on the deoxyribose moiety ( 6 ). cel i increases in activity with temperature up to 45 ° c . as illustrated by the increase in band intensity , see fig3 . however , from 65 ° c . to 80 ° c ., specificity is diminished due to dna duplex denaturation . to ascertain whether there is a single endonuclease incision at each dna duplex , the experiment described in fig3 was repeated with dna labeled on the 3 &# 39 ; terminus of the top strand . if there were only one incision site , initial incision positions revealed by substrates labeled at the 5 &# 39 ; or the 3 &# 39 ; termini should be at the same phosphodiester bond . in these experiments , substrates were labeled at the 3 &# 39 ; termini with 32 p ! α - dctp , cold dgtp and the klenow fragment of dna polymerase i to about 6000 ci / mmol . the sample preparation , denaturing gel resolution and autoradiogram analysis are the same as described in fig3 except incubation of 50 fmole of substrate with 10 μg of the cel i mono q fraction was for 30 minutes at a single temperature , 37 ° c . the dna sequencing ladders for substrates # 4 and # 5 are shown in lanes 1 - 4 to illustrate the dna sequences used . lanes 5 - 8 had no enzyme during the incubation . lanes 9 - 12 are mismatch endonuclease incisions of the substrates # 2 , # 4 , # 5 , # 3 , respectively . a line is drawn from the position of the incision band to the phosphodiester bond ( i ) nicked by the endonuclease in the reference sequencing ladder . lanes 13 and 14 demonstrate the coelectrophoresis of the cel i incision band with a chemical dna sequencing ladder to accurately determine the incision position . relative incision preferences for substrates # 2 , # 3 , # 4 , and # 5 are shown in fig4 for the 3 &# 39 ; labeled substrates . the mobilities of the incision bands in lanes 9 - 12 of fig4 indicate that the incision reactions had occurred at the phosphodiester bond immediately 3 &# 39 ; of the unpaired nucleotide . therefore , the incision site is the same for substrates labeled either at the 5 &# 39 ; or the 3 &# 39 ; terminus . the fact that the dna incision was found to occur at the same bond position , whether the substrate dna was labeled at the 5 &# 39 ; termini or the 3 &# 39 ; termini shows that cel i is not a dna glycosylase . a dna glycosylase mechanism would cause the dna incision position in the two dna substrates to be one base apart because a base is excised by the dna glycosylase . precise determination of the incision site was performed as in the example in lane 14 in which the t residue chemical sequencing reaction of the labeled top strand of substrate # 2 ( lane 13 ) was mixed with the cel i incision product of lane 9 and analyzed in the same lane . for a 3 &# 39 ;- labeled substrate , when a nuclease nicks 3 &# 39 ; of a nucleotide and produces a 5 &# 39 ; po 4 terminus , the truncated band runs with the band for that nucleotide in the chemical dna sequencing reaction product lane ( 7 ). moreover , the gel mobility , relative to the size standards of chemical dna sequencing , illustrated that the dna nick produced a 5 &# 39 ;- phosphorylated terminus ( 6 ). for a dna loop with a single nucleotide insertion , the nuclease specificity is a ≧ g & gt ; t & gt ; c . it can be seen in fig4 a that a small amount of 5 &# 39 ; to 3 &# 39 ; exonuclease activity is present in this cel i preparation . to test whether cel i can cut in the bottom strand across from a dna loop of one nucleotide in the top strand , or whether nicking of the loop - containing strand may lead to secondary cel i incision across from the nick , the bottom strand that contains no unpaired nucleotides in substrate # 2 was labeled at the 3 &# 39 ; end and incubated in the presence of cel i . the extrahelical nucleotide in the top strand , or the dna nick made by cel i in the top strand of substrate # 2 , seen in lane 9 of fig4 did not lead to significant nicking of the bottom strand ( lane 18 ). as a control against the possibility that dna sequence effect may favor cel i incision in the top strand and not the bottom strand , cel i was tested for incision of the bottom strand in the c / c mismatch substrate in lanes 15 and 16 . mismatch incision was made when cel i was present in lane 16 . in the characterization of the incision site of a repair endonuclease , it is important to determine whether one or two incisions have been made for each lesion . this is normally accomplished by using lesion - containing substrates that have been labeled , in turn , at the four termini of a dna duplex . this test has been satisfied in the analysis of substrate # 2 by using three labeled substrates because of the near absence of incision in the bottom strand . in fig3 lane 4 - 7 and fig4 lane 9 , respectively , the incision of this substrate in both the 5 &# 39 ; labeled and the 3 &# 39 ; labeled substrates have been compared . the incision site was found to be at the 3 &# 39 ; side of the mismatched nucleotide in both cases . the lack of incision on the bottom strand for substrate # 2 was demonstrated in lane 18 of fig4 . only the 5 &# 39 ; labeled substrate was needed in this case since no significant bottom strand incision had occurred . effect of amplitaq dna polymerase on the incisions at dna loop mismatches cel i activity is stimulated by the presence of a dna polymerase . in fig5 the cel i incisions at single - nucleotide loop substrates were stimulated by amplitaq dna polymerase to different extents depending on which nucleotides are present in the loop . it was necessary to use different amounts of cel i to illustrate the amplitaq dna polymerase stimulation . the stimulation of the incision at extrahelical c and extrahelical t substrates are best illustrated in fig5 a & amp ; b ( compare lanes 4 with lanes 9 , and lanes 5 with lanes 10 , in the respective panels ) where higher cel i levels are required to show good incision at these mismatches . for extrahelical g and extrahelical a substrates that are among the best substrates for cel i , amplitaq dna polymerase stimulation can best be illustrated by using a much lower level of cel i as in fig5 . the amounts of amplitaq stimulation of cel i in fig5 were quantified and presented in table i . table i______________________________________quantification of the cel i incision bandsshown in the autoradiogram in fig5 . - + amplitaq panel panelsubstrate lane # counts lane # counts +/- ______________________________________extrahelical g , band i a , 2 20894 a , 7 22101 1 . 1extrahelical a , band i a , 3 19451 a , 8 26357 1 . 4extrahelical c , band i a , 4 4867 a , 9 12009 2 . 5extrahelical t , band i a , 5 2297 a , 10 25230 11 . 0extrahelical g , band i b , 2 12270 b , 7 19510 1 . 6extrahelical a , band i b , 3 10936 b , 8 24960 2 . 3extrahelical c , band i b , 4 1180 b , 9 2597 2 . 2extrahelical t , band i b , 5 700 b , 10 21086 30 . 1extrahelical g , band i c , 11 10409 c , 13 18649 1 . 8extrahelical g , band ii c , 11 9020 c , 13 19912 2 . 2extrahelical a , band i c , 12 7165 c , 14 14983 2 . 1______________________________________ the autoradiograms were quantified in two dimensions with an ambis densitometer and the amount of signal in each band is given as counts . the ph optimum of cel i for the extrahelical g substrate was investigated in the absence or presence of the amplitaq dna polymerase . cel i ( 9 . 5 ng ) was incubated with 100 fmol of the substrate in a 20 μl reaction in buffers of ph 5 - 6 . 5 ( imidazole ) and ph 7 - 9 . 5 ( tris - hcl ) for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . when used , one half unit of amplitaq dna polymerase was present in the incubation in the top (- polymerase ) or bottom panels (+ polymerase ), respectively . as shown in fig6 cel i was found to be active from ph 5 . 0 to ph 9 . 5 , and showed a broad ph optimum centered about ph 7 . 5 ( top panel ). when amplitaq dna polymerase was present , the incision was stimulated across the whole ph range ( bottom panel ). the assay method did not use initial kinetics and thus precluded quantitative conclusions on this ph profile of cel i . however , it is clear that the enzyme works very well in the neutral ph ranges . other combinations of mismatched substrates are also recognized by cel i and incised on one of the two dna strands of each dna duplex . some of these substrates are less efficiently incised compared with those containing dna loops ; therefore 45 ° c . was used for incubation instead of 37 ° c . substrates with the 5 &# 39 ; termini of the top strands labeled were used in this study . the autoradiogram of fig7 shows that mismatches containing a c residue are the preferred mismatch substrates with c / c often better than c / a and c / t . the incisions at these mismatches tend to produce two alternate incision positions , one at the phosphodiester bond 3 &# 39 ; of the mismatched c residue , one at the phosphodiester bond one nucleotide further removed in the 3 &# 39 ; direction . whether alternate incision sites will be observed for these mismatches within another dna sequence context has not been investigated . one possible explanation for this phenomenon may be greater basepair destabilization next to a mismatch that contains a c residue than for other base - substitutions . alternatively , the specific mismatched nucleotide may shift one position to the 3 &# 39 ; side because the next nucleotide is also a c residue and the two residues can exchange their roles in the pairing with the g residue in the opposite dna strand . for base substitution mismatched basepairs , cel i specificity in the presence of amplitaq dna polymerase , with respect to the top strand , is c / c ≧ c / a ˜ c / t ≧ g / g & gt ; a / c ˜ a / a ˜ t / c & gt ; t / g ˜ g / t . about . g / a ˜ a / g & gt ; t / t ( fig7 a ). because eubacterial dna polymerases are known to incise at unusual dna structures ( 8 ), a test was conducted to determine whether amplitaq dna polymerase by itself will incise at the 13 substrates used in fig7 . under extended exposure of the autoradiogram , no mismatch incision by the amplitaq dna polymerase was observed ( fig7 b ). the sensitivity of cel i for mismatch detection is illustrated by its ability to detect mutations in pooled dna samples . dna was obtained from peripheral blood lymphocytes from individuals undergoing genetic screening at the fox chase cancer center . samples were obtained from breast cancer - only , ovarian cancer - only , breast / ovarian cancer syndrome families or from non - breast / ovarian cancer control samples . unlabeled primers specific for exon 2 of brca1 were utilized to pcr amplify this region of the gene . the wild - type pcr products of exon 2 were labeled with gamma 32 p - atp . briefly , 10 picomoles of pcr product were purified by the wizard procedure ( promega ). exon 2 wild - type products were then phosphorylated using t4 kinase and 15 picomoles of gamma 32 p - atp at 6 , 000 ci / mmol in 30 μl 1x kinase buffer ( 70 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 6 ), 10 mm mgcl 2 , 5 mm dithiothreitol ) at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . the reactions were stopped with 1 μl 0 . 5m edta . the reaction volume was brought up to 50 μl with 1 × ste buffer ( 100 mm nacl , 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 10 mm edta ) and processed through a pharmacia probe quant column . labeled dna ( 1 pmol / μl in 100 μl ) was then used for hybridization with individual unlabeled pcr amplified experimental samples . for each individual sample , 100 fmol of the unlabeled pcr amplified product was incubated with 200 fmol of the 32 p - labeled wild - type pcr product in cel i reaction buffer ( 25 mm kcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 ). following denaturation and renaturation , heteroduplexed , radiolabeled pcr products were exposed to cel i for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . in 1x cel reaction buffer and stopped via the addition of 10 μl stop mix ( 75 % formamide , 47 mm edta , 1 . 5 % sds , xylene cyanol and bromophenol blue ). the heteroduplexes were treated with the enzyme individually ( lanes 4 - 13 ) or pooled in one sample tube ( lane 14 ) and treated . the products of the reaction were loaded onto a 15 % polyacrylamide gel containing 7m urea and the results are shown in fig8 . out of the 10 samples analyzed , 2 contained an ag deletion ( lanes 4 and 7 ), 2 contained an 11 base - pair loop ( lanes 8 and 9 ), and the other 6 were wild type ( lanes 5 , 6 , 10 , 11 , 12 , and 13 ). cleavage by cel i at the ag deletion resulted in the formation of two bands , one of approximately 151 nucleotides from the top strand , the other at 112 nucleotides from the bottom strand ( lanes 4 and 7 ). cleavage by cel i at 11 base - pair loops resulted in the formation of one band at 147 nucleotides from the top strand , and a group of bands at 109 nucleotides in the bottom strand ( lanes 8 and 9 ). lanes 1 , 2 and 3 contain dna that was not exposed to cel i as negative controls , lane 15 contains 64 and 34 bp nucleotide markers . as can be seen in lane 14 of the gel , when the samples were pooled and exposed simultaneously to cel i , the enzyme cleaved at all of the above listed mutations with no loss of specificity . also , the pcr products of the wild - type samples showed no non - specific dna nicking . to further illustrate the ability of cel - i to detect mutations in pooled dna samples , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 10 or 30 heteroduplexed , radiolabelled pcr products , ( again amplified from exon 2 of the brca1 gene ), were exposed to cel - i in a single reaction tube and the products run on a 6 % polyacrylamide gel containing 7m urea . samples were amplified and radiolabeled as described above . each pool contained only one sample which had a mutation ( ag deletion ). the other samples in each pool were wild - type . lanes 1 and 2 contain control samples which were not exposed to cel i . in the pooled samples where a mutation was present , cel - i consistently cleaved the pcr products illustrating the sensitivity of the enzyme in the presence of excess wild - type , non - mutated dna ( lanes 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , and 11 ). as a control , heteroduplexed pcr products containing no mutations were analyzed and no cut band corresponding to a mutation appeared ( fig9 lanes 3 and 10 ). detection of mutations and polymorphisms by cel - i in samples obtained from high risk families pcr primer sets specific for the exons in the brca1 gene have been synthesized at fox chase cancer center . the gene sequence of brca1 is known . the exon boundaries and corresponding base numbers are shown in table ii . primers to amplify desired sequences can be readily designed by those skilled in the art following the methodology set forth in current protocols in molecular biology , ausubel et al ., eds , john wiley and sons , inc . ( 1995 ). these primers were planned such than in each pcr reaction , one primer is labeled at the 5 &# 39 ; termini with a fluorescent - label , 6 - fam , while the other primer is similarly labeled with a label of another color , tet . a pcr product will thus be labeled with two colors such that dna nicking events in either strand can be observed independently and the measurements corroborated . a summary of the results is presented in table iii . table ii______________________________________exon boundaries and correspondingbase numbers in brca1 exon base #&# 39 ; s______________________________________ 1 1 - 100 2 101 - 199 3 200 - 253 5 254 - 331 6 332 - 420 7 421 - 560 8 561 - 665 9 666 - 712 10 713 - 788 11 789 - 4215 11b 789 - 1591 11c 1454 - 2459 11a 2248 - 3290 11d 3177 - 4215 12 4216 - 4302 13 4303 - 4476 14 4477 - 4603 15 4604 - 4794 16 4795 - 5105 17 5106 - 5193 18 5194 - 5273 19 5274 - 5310 20 5311 - 5396 21 5397 - 5451 22 5452 - 5526 23 5527 - 5586 24 5587 - 5711______________________________________ fig1 depicts a schematic of the exons present in the brca1 gene . peripheral blood samples from individuals in high risk families were collected and the dna isolated . the pcr products were amplified using elongase ( brl ) and purified using wizard pcr preps ( promega ). the dna was heated to 94 ° c . and slowly cooled in 1x cel i buffer ( 20 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 4 , 25 mm kcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 ) to form heteroduplexes . the heteroduplexes were incubated in 20 μl 1x cel i buffer with 0 . 2 μl of cel i and 0 . 5 units of amplitaq at 45 ° c . for 30 minutes . the reactions were stopped with 1 mm phenanthroline and incubated for an additional 10 minutes at 45 ° c . the sample was processed through a centricep column ( princeton separations ) and dried down . one microliter of abi loading buffer ( 25 mm edta , ph 8 . 0 , 50 mg / ml blue dextran ), 4 μl deionized formamide and 0 . 5 μl tamra internal lane standard were added to the dried dna pellet . the sample was heated at 90 ° c . for 2 minutes and then quenched on ice prior to loading . the sample was then loaded onto a 4 . 25 % denaturing 34 cm well - to - read acrylamide gel and analyzed on an abi 373 sequencer using genescan 672 software . the 6 - fam labelled primer in this experimental sample was at nucleotide 3177 of the brca1 cdna ( region 11d ), the tet labelled primer was 73 nucleotides into the intron between exon 11 and exon 12 . each spike represents the presence of a dna band produced by the cleavage of the heteroduplex by cel - i where a mutation or a polymorphism is present . one spike represents the size of the cel i produced fragment from the 3 &# 39 ; side of the mismatch site to the 5 &# 39 ; 6 - fam label of the top strand . the other spike represents the corresponding fragment in the bottom strand from the 3 &# 39 ; side of the mismatch to the 5 &# 39 ; tet label . the sum of the two fragments equals one base longer than the length of the pcr product . the 6 - fam panel shows a spike at base # 645 from the 6 - fam label and the tet panel shows a spike at base # 483 from the tet label , both corresponding to the site of the 5 base deletion at nucleotide 3819 of the brca1 cdna ( fig1 ). analysis of exon 11 in another individual was performed using a 6 - fam - labelled primer at nucleotide 1454 of the brca1 cdna ( fig1 ). the tet - labelled primer was at nucleotide 2459 ( region 11c ). the pcr amplified products were amplified and prepared as described above . in this individual , the 6 - fam panel shows a spike at base # 700 and the tet panel shows a spike at # 305 , each spike corresponding to the site of cel i incision in the respective dna strand at a nonsense mutation of a & gt ; t at nucleotide 2154 of the brca1 cdna . the 6 - fam panel also shows a spike at base # 747 and the tet panel shows a spike at # 258 corresponding to the site of a polymorphism c & gt ; t at nucleotide 2201 of the brca1 cdna . the nonsense mutation and polymorphism have been confirmed by sequencing of this particular sample ( ko - 11 ) using the abi 377 sequencer . spikes that are marked with an asterisk are also present in the no enzyme control lane and represent pcr product background . certain individuals have mutations in another region of exon 11 , region 11a , on the schematic in fig1 . a 6 - fam - labelled primer at nucleotide 2248 of the brca1 cdna and a tet labeled primer at nucleotide 3290 were used to amplify this region of exon 11 . following amplification , the samples were processed as described above . the four 6 - fam panels represent cel - i reactions with 4 different individual samples . the first panel in fig1 a , sample # ko - 2 , shows one spike at # 182 corresponding to the site of a polymorphism t & gt ; c at nucleotide 2430 and a second spike at nucleotide # 483 corresponding to the site of another polymorphism c & gt ; t at nucleotide 2731 . the second panel , fig1 b , sample # ko - 3 , shows only the second polymorphism . the third panel , fig1 c , sample # ko - 7 shows no polymorphism . the fourth panel , fig1 d , sample # ko - 11 , shows two spikes corresponding to the two polymorphisms . it is interesting to note that this sample , ko - 11 , shows up positive for a nonsense mutation and a polymorphism in the region of exon 11c corresponding to nucleotides 1454 - 2459 as described above . table iii______________________________________summary of brca1 mutationsand polymorphisms detected by cel i______________________________________ nucleotide type ofexon position # mutation______________________________________2 185 ag deletion2 188 11 base deletion11 c 2154 a & gt ; t11 d 3819 5 base deletion11 d 4168 a & gt ; g11 d 4153 a deletion11 d 4184 4 base deletion20 5382 c insertion______________________________________ nucleotide type ofexon position # polymorphism______________________________________11 b 1186 a & gt ; g11 c 2201 t & gt ; c11 a 2430 t & gt ; c11 a 2731 c & gt ; t11 d 3667 a & gt ; g______________________________________ table iv sets forth the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; flanking sequences surrounding the mutations detected by cel i in the present invention . while not exhaustive , it can be seen from the variability of the flanking sequences surrounding these mutations and polymorphisms that cel i sensitivity and recognition of mismatched dna heteroduplexes does not appear to be adversely affected by flanking sequences . table iv______________________________________effect of flanking sequences on endonucleaseactivity of cel inucleotide type of 5 &# 39 ; flanking 3 &# 39 ; flankingposition exon change sequence sequence______________________________________185 2 ag 5 &# 39 ; atctt 5 &# 39 ; agtgt deletion tagga3 &# 39 ; tcaca 3 &# 39 ; 188 2 11 bp 5 &# 39 ; ttaga 5 &# 39 ; g deletion aatct3 &# 39 ; the next 4 bp are in intron1186 11 b a --& gt ; g 5 &# 39 ; taagc 5 &# 39 ; gaaac attcg 3 &# 39 ; cttg 3 &# 39 ; 2154 11 c a --& gt ; t 5 &# 39 ; gagcc 5 &# 39 ; agaag ctcgg 3 &# 39 ; tcttc 3 &# 39 ; 2201 11 c t --& gt ; c 5 &# 39 ; gacag 5 &# 39 ; gatac ctgtc 3 &# 39 ; ctatg 3 &# 39 ; 2430 11 a t --& gt ; c 5 &# 39 ; agtag 5 &# 39 ; agtat tcatc 3 &# 39 ; tcata 3 &# 39 ; 2731 11 a c --& gt ; t 5 &# 39 ; tgctc 5 &# 39 ; gtttt acgag 3 &# 39 ; caaaa 3 &# 39 ; 3667 11 d a --& gt ; g 5 &# 39 ; cagaa 5 &# 39 ; ggaga ctctt 3 &# 39 ; cctct 3 &# 39 ; 3819 11 d 5 bp 5 &# 39 ; gtaaa 5 &# 39 ; caata deletion cattt 3 &# 39 ; gttat 3 &# 39 ; 4153 11 d a deletion 5 &# 39 ; tgatg 5 &# 39 ; agaaa actac 3 &# 39 ; tcttt 3 &# 39 ; 4184 11 d 4 bp 5 &# 39 ; aataa 5 &# 39 ; gaaga deletion ttatt 3 &# 39 ; cttct 3 &# 39 ; 4168 11 d a --& gt ; g 5 &# 39 ; aacgg 5 &# 39 ; cttga ttgcc 3 &# 39 ; gaact 3 &# 39 ; 5382 20 c 5 &# 39 ; atccc 5 &# 39 ; aggac insertion taggg 3 &# 39 ; tcctg 3 &# 39 ; ______________________________________ as can be seen from the above described examples , utilization of cel i has distinct advantages over methods employing other mismatch repair systems during analysis of mutations in the clinical setting . these advantages are summarized in table v . table iii__________________________________________________________________________comparison of the advantages of methods employing cel i over currentmismatch detection methods : rnase plant s1 dna muts chemical t4 endo - nicking ddntp mismatch nuclease mismatch binding cleavage nuclease mismatched automated sscp endo - method glycosylases assay method vii rna : dna dna finger - nuclease ( 7 ) ( 8 ) ( 9 ) ( 10 ) ( 11 ) ( 12 ) sequencing printing cel__________________________________________________________________________ iassay at neutral ph no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yesapplicable to mutations of yes no yes yes yes yes yes yes yesunknown positionsapplicable to all basepair unknown with with with yes no yes yes yessubstitutions difficulty difficulty difficultyapplicable to dna loops , yes no with multiple yes unknown yes yes yes difficulty bandsadvantage of single major no no yes no yes no no no yesband in loop detectionadvantage of little no unknown yes unknown cuts w / o unknown no with yesinfluence by sequence mismatch difficultyspecificityadvantage of no rna yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes yesinstabilityability to show the yes yes no yes yes yes yes with yesposition of a detectable difficultymutationability to tower no no no no with no no no yesbackground with dna difficultypolymerase and dna ligaserecycling reactionadvantage to multiplex unknown no with yes unknown no no no yessamples of same color difficultyadvantage to analyze unknown unknown with yes , up to unknown no no no yestargets of 1 kbp - 3 kbp difficulty 1 kbp__________________________________________________________________________ 2 . su , s .- s ., lahue , r . s ., au , k . g ., and moldrich , p . 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substratenos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 15 &# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : gcgattttaatcacaattccacacatgacgcgagccggaagcataaagtgaactagcatg60acg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 64 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substrate no . 2 &# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcggcgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaa60atcg64 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 64 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substrate no . 3 &# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcgtcgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaa60atcg64 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 64 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substrate no . 4 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcgacgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaa60atcg64 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 64 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substrate no . 5 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcgccgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaa60atcg64 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substratenos . 6 , 7 , 8 , 18 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcacgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaaa60tcg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substratenos . 9 , 10 , 11 , 19 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctcccgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaaa60tcg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; top strand of substratenos . 15 , 16 , 17 , 20 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 10 : ccgtcatgctagttcactttatgcttccggctctcgtcatgtgtggaattgtgattaaaa60tcg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; bottom strand of substratenos . 6 , 9 , 12 , 20 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 : gcgattttaatcacaattccacacatcacgagagccggaagcataaagtgaactagcatg60acg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 12 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; bottom strand of substratenos . 8 , 13 , 16 , 19 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 12 : gcgattttaatcacaattccacacatcacgggagccggaagcataaagtgaactagcatg60acg63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 13 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 63 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : not relevant ( ii ) molecule type : other nucleic acid ( a ) description : / desc = &# 34 ; bottom strand of substratenos . 11 , 14 , 17 , 18 .&# 34 ;( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 13 : gcgattttaatcacaattccacacatcacgtgagccggaagcataaagtgaactagcatg60acg63__________________________________________________________________________