We report heterogeneity in the time necessary for Exonuclease I to hydrolyze identical DNA fragments. A real-time fluorescence method measured the time required by molecules of Exonuclease I to hydrolyze single-stranded DNA that was synthesized to have two fluorescently labeled nucleotides. One fluorescently labeled nucleotide was located near the 3' end of the DNA and the other near the 5' end. Heterogeneity in the hydrolysis rate of the exonuclease population was inferred from the distribution of times necessary to cleave these DNA fragments. In particular, we found simple first-order kinetics, using a single hydrolysis rate, did not result in a good fit to the data. Better fits to the data were obtained if one assumed a distribution of hydrolysis rates for the exonuclease population. Under our experimental conditions, this broad distribution of rates was centered near 100 nt/s.
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