Affiliation:
1. Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, New York 12144
Abstract
The effects of nalidixic acid in vitro on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)- polymerase (deoxyribonucleosidetriphosphate: DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.7), deoxyribonucleotide kinases (ATP: deoxymono- and diphosphate phosphotransferases), and deoxyribosyl transferase (nucleoside: purine deoxyribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.6) were examined employing partially purified and crude extracts of
Escherichia coli
ATCC 11229 and
E. coli
15TAU. Nalidixic acid had no inhibitory effect on the DNA-polymerase of the wild-type strain
E. coli
ATCC 11229 at concentrations of 1.4 × 10
−3
to 2.8 × 10
−3
m
. No inhibition of deoxyribonucleotide kinase activity was observed at concentrations of nalidixic acid ranging from 2 × 10
−3
to 8.6 × 10
−3
m
. Nalidixic acid (0.43 × 10
−4
to 0.43 × 10
−3
m
) had no inhibitory effect on the deoxyribosyl transferase activity of crude extracts obtained from
E. coli
ATCC 11229 or
E. coli
15TAU. Analytical CsCl density gradient centrifugation demonstrated that the DNA obtained after treatment of
E. coli
15TAU with nalidixic acid was not cross-linked. These results suggest that the prevention of DNA synthesis in vivo by nalidixic acid is not attributable to inhibition of DNA polymerase, deoxyribonucleotide kinase, deoxyribosyl transferase, or to cross-linking of the DNA of treated cells.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
43 articles.
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