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This work was supported by NIH AI099854 and AI126742 to KEY.

1. Induce PFV IN Expression in E. coli
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	<li>Add 1 &#956;L of PFV IN expression plasmid (10 ng/&#956;L) to 20 &#956;L of E. coli BL21(DE3) pLysS (20 &#956;L aliquot of commercially available cells has &#62;2 x 106 CFU/&#956;g plasmid) in a 1.5 mL tube. Mix gently by finger tapping or flicking the tube. Incubate on ice 5 min.
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		<li>Heat shock for exactly 30 s in a 42 &#730;C water bath and then immediately return to ice for 2 min.</li>
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Recombinant proteins that interact with DNA, such as DNA repair proteins, oxygen scavengers for single molecule microscopy applications, or retroviral integrases, should be free of contaminating bacterial nucleases2,3. These contaminants may confuse the interpretation of results during bulk biochemical or single molecule assays.
We have found that a bacterial nuclease frequently co-purifies with PFV IN. However, PFV IN displays an affi...

Biochemical and single molecule studies of protein interactions with DNA require exceptionally pure recombinant proteins. Contaminating nucleases from bacteria can obscure the results of these assays. A contaminating nuclease has been found in preparations of recombinant proteins oxygen scavenger protocatechuate-3,4-dioxygenase (PCD) and prototype foamy virus (PFV) integrase (IN) isolated from Escherichia coli (E. coli)1,2,3.
Retroviral integration assays rely on the conversion of supercoiled DNA to nicked or linear products as a measure of IN activity4. During cellular infection IN joins the two ends of a viral cDNA to the host chromatin5. Each end joining reaction is termed strand transfer. Assays of recombinant IN activity may join two DNA oligomers mimicking the viral cDNA ends to a target DNA in a concerted integration reaction4,5,6,7,8. Alternatively recombinant IN may join only one DNA end in a non-physiologically relevant half site integration reaction9,10. When supercoiled plasmid DNA is the target of integration, concerted integration products are linearized DNA and half site integration products are relaxed circles. These reaction products are identified by their relative mobility during agarose gel electrophoresis1. If the recombinant IN has a contaminating nuclease, there will be spurious relaxed circles or a possibly linearized plasmid confusing the experimental results. Viral DNA oligomers may be fluorescently labeled to conclusively identify integration products, as opposed to nuclease products. However, IN greatly favors supercoiled DNA targets; any loss of supercoiled plasmid to relaxed circles or linear DNA by contaminating nuclease could skew results and interpretation of data11. Thus it is imperative to remove bacterial nucleases from retroviral IN preparations.
PFV IN has a different affinity for heparin sepharose compared to the bacterial nuclease1. PFV IN and the nuclease may be separated by a linear gradient elution from heparin sepharose. The nuclease is not readily detected by an ultraviolet (UV) absorbance at 280 nm peak or by analytical sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Instead, the nuclease is detected by a nuclease activity assay employing the conversion of a supercoiled plasmid to relaxed circles or linear products. Each fraction following heparin sepharose chromatography is tested for nuclease activity. PFV IN and the nuclease contaminant have no difference in affinity for Mono-Q anion resin. There is a small difference in affinity for Mono-S cation resin. However, the Mono-S resolution of bacterial nuclease and PFV IN would not allow efficient separation of the proteins. Ultimately, heparin sepharose affinity purification offers the best separation of bacterial nuclease from PFV IN and has the advantage of unlimited load volume.
Testing for contaminating nuclease activity may be adapted to other proteins. The protein of interest will likely have alternative affinity characteristics than PFV IN; the difference in binding characteristics of the protein of interest and the nuclease contaminant must be empirically determined. This methodology for identifying nuclease contamination may be adapted to other resins including Mono-S cation or Mono-Q anion exchange resins. Affinity and ion exchange resins may offer a reliable method to isolate a recombinant protein of interest from contaminating nucleases with no limits on the volume of protein during chromatography.

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detection and removal of nuclease contamination during purification of recombinant prototype foamy virus integrase

The integrase (IN) protein of the retrovirus prototype foamy virus (PFV) is a model enzyme for studying the mechanism of retroviral integration. Compared to IN from other retroviruses, PFV IN is more soluble and more amenable to experimental manipulation. Additionally, it is sensitive to clinically relevant human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) IN inhibitors, suggesting that the catalytic mechanism of PFV IN is similar to that of HIV-1 IN. IN catalyzes the covalent joining of viral complementary DNA (cDNA) to target DNA in a process called strand transfer. This strand transfer reaction introduces nicks to the target DNA. Analysis of integration reaction products can be confounded by the presence of nucleases that similarly nick DNA. A bacterial nuclease has been shown to co-purify with recombinant PFV IN expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli). Here we describe a method to isolate PFV IN from the contaminating nuclease by heparin affinity chromatography. Fractions are easily screened for nuclease contamination with a supercoiled plasmid and agarose gel electrophoresis. PFV IN and the contaminating nuclease display alternative affinities for heparin sepharose allowing a nuclease-free preparation of recombinant PFV IN suitable for bulk biochemical or single molecule analysis of integration.

Recombinant PFV IN is often contaminated with a bacterial nuclease1. Biochemical integration assays depend on the quantitation of the conversion of supercoiled plasmid DNA to relaxed circles and linear products. The presence of a contaminating nuclease could lead to spurious quantitation of these assays. Expression of PFV IN with a hexahistidine tag is induced in E. coli (Figure 1) and first purified by nickel affinity chromatography (Fig...

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Detection and Removal of Nuclease Contamination During Purification of Recombinant Prototype Foamy Virus Integrase

Recombinant prototype foamy virus integrase protein is often contaminated with a bacterial nuclease during purification. This method identifies nuclease contamination and removes it from the final preparation of the enzyme.

The integrase (IN) protein of the retrovirus prototype foamy virus (PFV) is a model enzyme for studying the mechanism of retroviral integration. Compared ...

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