Amino acid substitutions at position 43 of NaeI endonuclease. Evidence for changes in NaeI structure.

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NaeI endonuclease contains a 10-amino acid region with sequence similarity to the active site KXDG motif of DNA ligase except for leucine (Leu-43) in NaeI ((43)LXDG(46)). Changing Leu-43 to lysine abolishes the NaeI endonuclease activity and replaces it with topoisomerase and recombinase activities. Here we report the results of substituting Leu-43 with alanine, arginine, asparagine, glutamate, and histidine....

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