SV40 DNA FO I is randomly cleaved by S1 nuclease both at moderate (50 mM) and higher salt concentrations (250 mM NaC1). Full length linear S1 cleavage products of SV40 DNA when digested with various restriction endonucleases revealed fragments that were electrophoretically indistinguishable from the products found after digestion of superhelical SV40 DNA FO I with the corresponding enzyme. Concordingly, when the linear S1 generated duplexes were melted and renatured, circular duplexes were formed in addition to complex larger structures. This indicated that cleavage must have occurred at different sites. The double-strand-cleaving activity present in S1 nuclease preparations requires circular DNA as a substrate, as linear SV40 DNA is not cleaved. With regard to these properties S1 nuclease resembles some of the complex type I restriction nucleases from Escherichia coli which also cleave SV40 DNA only once, and, completely at random.
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