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Photoalkylation, the ultraviolet irradiation of DNA with isopropanol and di-tert-butylperoxide, causes a variety of base alterations. These include 8-(2-hydroxy-2-propyl)guanines, 8-(2-hydroxy-2-propyl)adenines and thymine dimers. An E. coli endonuclease against photoalkylated DNA was assayed by conversion of superhelical PM2 phage DNA to the nicked form. Enzyme activities were compared between extracts of strain BW9109 (xth-), lacking exonuclease III activity, and strain BW434 (xth-,nth-), deficient in both exonuclease III and endonuclease III. The endonuclease level in the double mutant against substrate photoalkylated DNA was under 20% of the activity in the mutant lacking only exonuclease III. Irradiation of the DNA substrate in the absence of isopropanol did not affect the activity in either strain. Analysis by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis identified the sites of DNA cleavage by purified E. coli endonuclease III as cytosines, both in DNA irradiated at biologically significant wavelengths and in photoalkylated DNA. Neither 8-(2-hydroxy-2-propyl)purines, pyrimidine dimers, uracils nor 6-4'-(pyrimidin-2'-one)pyrimidines were substrates for the enzyme.

Photoalkylated DNA and ultraviolet-irradiated DNA are incised at cytosines by endonuclease III