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The Escherichia coli AlkB protein catalyzes the direct reversal of alkylation damage to DNA; primarily 1-methyladenine (1mA) and 3-methylcyto- sine (3mC) lesions created by endogenous or environmental alkylating agents. AlkB is a member of the non-heme iron (II) a-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase superfamily, which removes the alkyl group through oxidation eliminating a methyl group as formaldehyde. We have developed a fluores- cence-based assay for the dealkylation activity of this family of enzymes. It uses formaldehyde dehydrogenase to convert formaldehyde to formic acid and monitors the creation of an NADH analog using fluorescence. This assay is a great improve- ment over the existing assays for DNA demethyla- tion in that it is continuous, rapid and does not require radioactively labeled material. It may also be used to study other demethylation reactions includ- ing demethylation of histones. We used it to determine the kinetic constants for AlkB and found them to be somewhat different than previously reported values. The results show that AlkB deme- thylates 1mA and 3mC with comparable efficiencies and has only a modest preference for a single- stranded DNA substrate over its double-stranded DNA counterpart.

Kinetic studies of Escherichia coli AlkB using a new fluorescence-based assay for DNA demethylation