Establishing kinetic activity of Exonuclease III on surface-immobilized substrates used in novel DNA rolling motors Öffentlichkeit
Sheyitov, Bakai (Spring 2023)
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Abstract
The kinetic capabilities of the enzymes used in nanotechnology, including in molecular motors, are often overlooked and poorly defined. This study aims to investigate the kinetic and biophysical profile of Exonuclease III, a common 3'-to-5' dsDNA exonuclease, and find its cleavage rate of two types of DNA substrates: freely floating in solution and immobilized on the surface. Comparing the hydrolysis rates in two environments allowed us to draw conclusions about Exonuclease III's kinetic activity and potential use in creating synthetic motors, specifically rolling motors. The rolling motor is a design in which the enzyme consumption of the nucleic acid monolayer propels the super-diffusive motion of the particle with multivalent DNA legs. An earlier generation of motors used RNase H hydrolysis of the RNA monolayer to power such motion. This work focuses on applying the findings from in-solution and on-surface kinetic assays to optimization of the design of RNA-independent rolling nanomotors. Our results show that Exonuclease III is capable of processive cleavage of DNA substrates in both conditions with in-solution kcat of 12.8 min-1, on-surface kcat of 0.1-0.3 min-1, and on-surface koff of 0.1-0.2 min-1 when 8 nM ExoIII was added to the buffer containing 10 mM of Mg2+. Additionally, the ability of certain protecting groups and fluorophores to affect the enzymatic cleavage was tested. A closer look at the Exonuclease III's behavior in various conditions and with substrates in distinct biophysical settings (in solution and on surface) addressed the fundamental questions of enzyme kinetics and laid a foundation for engineering a new class of nucleic acid-based molecular motors.
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Background 1
Methods 24
Results and Discussion 31
Conclusion and Future Directions 54
References 55
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