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Characterisation of the DNA-dependent ATPase activity of human DNA topoisomerase IIbeta: mutation of Ser165 in the ATPase domain reduces the ATPase activity and abolishes the in vivo complementation ability.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Dec 2002
West Katherine L, Turnbull Rosalind M, Willmore Elaine, Lakey Jeremy H, Austin Caroline A
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We report for the first time an analysis of the ATPase activity of human DNA topoisomerase (topo) IIbeta. We show that topo IIbeta is a DNA-dependent ATPase that appears to fit Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The ATPase activity is stimulated 44-fold by DNA. The k(cat) for ATP hydrolysis by human DNA topo IIbeta in the presence of DNA is 2.25 s(-1). We have characterised a topo IIbeta derivative which carries a...
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