期刊
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 234-240出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00172
关键词
artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS); triphosphates; kinase; assays; DNA polymerase; synthetic biology
资金
- NSF [1412869]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Microsystems Technology Office (DSO) under ARPA [CLIO: N66001-12-C-4019, 8657\00]
- Nucleic Acids Licensing
- Firebird Biomolecular Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1412869] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
One frontier in synthetic biology seeks to move artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) into natural living cells and to arrange the metabolism of those cells to allow them to replicate plasmids built from these unnatural genetic systems. In addition to requiring polymerases that replicate AEGIS oligonucleotides, such cells require metabolic pathways that biosynthesize the triphosphates of AEGIS nucleosides, the substrates for those polymerases. Such pathways generally require nucleoside and nucleotide kinases to phosphorylate AEGIS nucleosides and nucleotides on the path to these triphosphates. Thus, constructing such pathways focuses on engineering natural nucleoside and nucleotide kinases, which often do not accept the unnatural AEGIS biosynthetic intermediates. This, in turn, requires assays that allow the enzyme engineer to follow the kinase reaction, assays that are easily confused by ATPase and other spurious activities that might arise through site-directed damage of the natural kinases being engineered. This article introduces three assays that can detect the formation of both natural and unnatural deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, assessing their value as polymerase substrates at the same time as monitoring the progress of kinase engineering. Here, we focus on two complementary AEGIS nucleoside diphosphates, 6-amino-5-nitro-3-(1'-beta-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-2(1H)-pyridone and 2-amino-8-(1'-beta-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)-one. These assays provide new ways to detect the formation of unnatural deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates in vitro and to confirm their incorporation into DNA. Thus, these assays can be used with other unnatural nucleotides.
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