US20050089910A1 - DNA polymerase having ability to reduce innate selective discrimination against fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotides - Google Patents
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- DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
- RNA ribonucleic acid
- DNA consists of a chain of individual deoxynucleotides chemically linked in specific sequences. Each deoxynucleotide contains one of the four nitrogenous bases which may be adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) or thymine (T), and a deoxyribose, which is a pentose, with a hydroxyl group attached to its 3′ position and a phosphate group attached to its 5′ position.
- A adenine
- C cytosine
- G guanine
- T thymine
- deoxyribose which is a pentose, with a hydroxyl group attached to its 3′ position and a phosphate group attached to its 5′ position.
- the contiguous deoxynucleotides that form the DNA chain are connected to each other by a phosphodiester bond linking the 5′ position of one pentose ring to the 3′ position of the next pentose ring in such a manner that the beginning of the DNA molecule always has a phosphate group attached to the 5′ carbon of a deoxyribose.
- the end of the DNA molecule always has an OH (hydroxyl) group on the 3′ carbon of a deoxyribose.
- DNA usually exists as a double-stranded molecule in which two antiparallel DNA strands are held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases of the individual nucleotides of the two DNA strands in a strictly matched “A-T” and “C-G” pairing manner. It is the order or sequence of the bases in a strand of DNA that determines a gene which in turn determines the type of protein to be synthesized. Therefore, the accurate determination of the sequence of the bases in a DNA strand which also constitutes the genetic code for a protein is of fundamental importance in understanding the characteristics of the protein concerned.
- DNA sequencing The process used to determine the sequence of the bases in a DNA molecule is referred to as DNA sequencing.
- the enzymatic method developed by Sanger et al. (1) is most popular. It is based on the ability of a DNA polymerase to extend a primer annealed to the DNA template to be sequenced in the presence of four normal deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs), namely, dATP, dCTP, dGTP and dTTP, and on the ability of the nucleotide analogs, the dideoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs), namely, ddATP, ddCTP, ddGTP and ddTTP, to terminate the extension of the elongating deoxynucleotide polymers at various lengths.
- dNTPs normal deoxynucleotide triphosphates
- ddNTPs dideoxynucleotide triphosphates
- the sequence determination is carried out in a set of four separate tubes, each containing all four normal dNTPs, one of which is labeled with a radioactive isotope, 32 P or 35 S, for autoradiographic localization, a limiting amount of one of the four ddNTPs, a DNA polymerase, a primer, and the DNA template to be sequenced.
- the populations of the newly formed DNA strands are separated and grouped according to their molecular weight.
- An autoradiographic image of the gel will show the relative positions of these DNA strands as bands which differ from one another in distance measured by one nucleotide in length, all sharing an identical primer and terminating with a particular ddNTP (A, C, G or T).
- ddNTP ddNTP
- the DNA polymerase used in the reaction mixture plays a pivotal role in DNA sequencing analysis.
- a DNA polymerase must possess certain essential properties. For example, it must have its natural 5′-3′ exonuclease activity removed by mutagenesis or by posttranslational modification, such as enzymatic digestion, and must be able to incorporate dNTPs and ddNTPs, without undue discrimination against ddNTP and with a sufficiently high processivity which refers to the ability of the enzyme to polymerize nucleotides onto a DNA chain continuously without being dislodged from the chain, and a sufficiently high elongation rate.
- a 5′-3′ exonuclease activity associated with a DNA polymerase will remove nucleotides from the primer, thus cause a heterogeneous 5′ end for the newly formed DNA strands, resulting in a false reading of the strand lengths on the sequencing gel.
- a DNA polymerase with a low processivity and a low elongation rate will cause many undesirable noise background bands of radioactivity due to the presence of DNA strands which are formed with improper lengths and improper terminations.
- SequenaseTM has a higher processivity and a higher elongation rate than others, such as the Klenow fragment, Taq, and Vent polymerases (2), and is therefore one of the most popular DNA polymerase selected for DNA sequencing to-date.
- Bst DNA polymerase system can be used both for the classic Sanger one-step reaction as well as for the “labeling/termination” sequencing reaction, double-stranded DNA sequencing, and the incorporation of 35 S-labeled nucleotides, and 32 P-labeled nucleotides. Since this system can be placed at room temperature for at least two weeks without significant loss of its enzymatic activity, it has been adapted for automation of DNA sequencing which requires a stable DNA polymerase, using either fluorescent dye or radioactive isotope labeling. (See also 9, 12, and 13.)
- Another disadvantage of the Bst DNA polymerase currently known in the art is its lack of 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (5), and specifically, proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity.
- a survey of the sequencing data collected from fourteen research centers which have used this Bst DNA polymerase for their DNA sequencing work on over 120 DNA clones showed that, statistically, base pair mismatching occurs at a rate of about 1.5 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 5 . That is, approximately 1.5 errors can be expected in one hundred thousand nucleotide incorporations during nucleotide polymerization catalyzed by the enzyme.
- a 3′-5′ exonuclease may excise the correctly matched nucleotides at a faster rate than the mismatched ones from the 3′ terminus, or excise both the correctly matched and the mismatched nucleotides at the same rate. Consequently, even where the DNA polymerase has 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, it does not perform any useful proof-reading function during DNA polymerization.
- the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity has been removed from the native T7 DNA polymerase, which lacks a 5′-3′ exonuclease, either by a chemical reaction that oxidizes the amino acid residues essential for the exonuclease activity (SequenaseTM Version 1) or genetically by deleting 28 amino acids essential for the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (SequenaseTM 2).
- Vent R (exo ⁇ ) DNA polymerase which is recommended as the preferred form of the Vent DNA polymerase for sequencing, also has its 3′-5′ exonuclease activity removed by genetic modification.
- the currently known Bst DNA polymerase isolated and purified from the cells of Bacillus stearothermophilus for DNA sequencing is free of 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (5).
- IsoThermTM DNA Polymerase a commercially available Bst DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing, marketed by Epicentre Technologies (1402 Emil Street, Madison, Wis. 53713), is also based on a Bst DNA polymerase whose 3′-5′ exonuclease activity has been enzymatically removed (6).
- the dyes can be either coupled with the primer, or coupled with the ddNTP terminators, namely the dye-labeled ddATP, dye-labeled ddCTP, dye-labeled ddGTP and dye-labeled ddTTP. Sequencing techniques based on these two forms of labeling of the final enzymatic reaction products are commonly referred to as “dye primer sequencing” and “dye terminator sequencing”, respectively.
- ddNTPs are employed as the chain terminators, as in the original classic Sanger method which uses radioactive isotope as the marker.
- the molecular structure of ddNTPs are almost identical to that of dNTPs, the natural building blocks of all DNA molecules. Therefore, any DNA polymerase which has been used for radioactive isotope manual DNA sequencing can be easily adapted for fluorescent dye primer DNA sequencing with equally satisfactory results.
- the disadvantage in the dye primer technology is that the primer for each template to be sequenced must be labeled with four different fluorescent dyes and that the enzymatic reaction must be performed in four separate test tubes each containing only one of the ddNTPs, namely ddATP, ddCTP, ddGTP or ddTTP, as in the classic Sanger radioisotope method.
- the fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, dye-labeled ddCTP, dye-labeled ddGTP and dye-labeled ddTTP are coupled with different fluorescent dyes, each emitting a specific light spectrum, thus directly reporting the type of ddNTP at the 3′ terminus of the DNA fragment.
- these dye-labeled ddNTPs serve the dual function of a specific base terminator and a “color marker”. There is no need to label the primer for each new template, and the polymerase DNA extension reaction can be performed in a single test tube to generate the required specifically terminated and specifically dye-labeled DNA fragments of various sizes for DNA sequencing.
- both Taq DNA polymerase and Sequenase IITM have been used for radioisotope labeling DNA sequencing with excellent results, and have been adapted for fluorescent dye-labeled primer DNA sequencing. But neither can be used for fluorescent dye-labeled terminator DNA sequencing technologies.
- the Taq DNA polymerase was used for fluorescent dye-labeled terminator chemical reactions, the reaction products generated no readable data on the DNA sequencer. Most of the fluorescence was either in unincorporated dye-ddNTPs at the leading front of the test gel, or in fragments greater than several hundred bases in length.
- Taq DNA polymerase mutant in which the amino acid, phenylalanine, at position 667 of its amino acid sequence has been replaced by a tyrosine and which has an increased ability to incorporate dideoxynucleotides (6,000 times more efficient), to replace the unmodified Taq DNA polymerase for the experiment, the results are significantly improved.
- This F667Y mutant of Taq DNA polymerase is now marketed by Amersham Life Science, Inc. under the trademark ThermoSequenaseTM.
- ThermoSequenaseTM is not recommended for direct DNA sequencing without precyclings. Like Taq DNA polymerase, ThermoSequenaseTM lacks a proof-reading exonuclease activity.
- Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax and Bacillus caldolyticus are classified as mesophilic microbes; although their DNA polymerases are referred to as thermostable (most active at 65° C.) they are inactivated at 70° C. or above. This is contrasted with other enzymes, such as Taq, which are truly thermophilic—that is, their DNA polymerases tolerate and remain active at temperatures higher that 95° C.
- These mesophilic bacillus strains, especially Bacillus stearothermophilus produce DNA polymerases that are useful in DNA sequencing applications.
- a disadvantage of the DNA polymerases of these strains is that during DNA sequencing they all exhibit a high degree of selective discrimination against incorporation of certain particular members of fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTPs, namely the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, as terminators onto the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction.
- fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP of the natural DNA polymerases isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax was not previously recognized.
- Such selective discrimination is apparently sequence-related, and cannot be corrected or compensated by mere adjustment of the concentrations of the dNTPs.
- This invention addresses the above-described problems associated with mesophilic bacillus DNA polymerases by providing novel DNA polymerases which, during direct DNA sequencing, reduce the innate selective discrimination against the incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, without increasing the rate of incorporation of the other two dye-labeled ddNTP terminators (ddTTP and ddGTP) excessively.
- this invention provides a novel genetic modification of the amino acid sequence of a highly processive DNA polymerase (such as isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus ) that, unmodified, selectively discriminates against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP (but does not discriminate against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddTTP and ddGTP).
- a highly processive DNA polymerase such as isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus
- the modification results in a reduction of the innate selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP, such that all four of the ddNTP terminators are effectively incorporated into the DNA primer elongated by the DNA polymerase.
- the modified DNA polymerase of this invention is effective in reducing the innate selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP characteristic of the DNA polymerase in its unmodified state.
- the preferred DNA polymerase is a modification of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of a mesophilic bacterium, such as Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus .
- the approach of modifying the DNA polymerase described herein may be used to modify other DNA polymerases which share a close amino acid homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus , as long as the unmodified DNA polymerases have a selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide ddCTP and/or ddATP as terminators in the enzymatic reaction for preparing materials for automated fluroescent DNA sequencing.
- the modified DNA polymerase has an amino acid sequence that shares not less than 95% homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus.
- the particularly preferred mesophilic species is Bacillus stearothermophilus , which is highly heterogeneous. This is indicated by the wide range of DNA base compositions as well as the range of the phenotypic properties of strains assigned to this species (see Bergey's Manual of Systemic Bacteriology, Eds. P. H. A. Sneath, N. S. Mair, M. E. Sharpe and J. G. Holt, Williams & Wilkins, 1986, Vol. 2, page 1135). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the amino acid sequences of DNA polymerases isolated from various strains would be heterogeneous with potential functional differences.
- DNA polymerases isolated from the known standard strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus have been shown to lack a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, a questionable trace of “contaminating” 3151 exonuclease has been observed in a purified DNA polymerase preparations (see Kaboev et al., J. Bacteriology, Vol. 145, page 21-26, 1981).
- the term “proof-reading” is intended to denote that the DNA polymerase is capable of removing mismatched nucleotides from the 3′ terminus of a newly formed DNA strand at a faster rate than the rate at which nucleotides correctly matched with the nucleotides of the template are removed during DNA sequencing.)
- the strain Bst 320 was deposited on Oct. 30, 1995 in the American Type Culture Collection, located at 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Md. 20852, and has been given ATCC Designation No. 55719.
- the DNA polymerase isolated from Bst 320 is composed of 587 amino acids as are the DNA polymerases of other known strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus , such as, for instance, the strains deposited by Riggs et al (Genbank Accession No. L42111) and by Phang et al. (Genbank Accession No. U23149).
- the Bst 320 shares only 89.1% sequence identity at protein level with the Bacillus stearothermophilus DNA polymerase deposited by Riggs et al., and shares only 87.4% sequence identity at protein level with the Bacillus stearothermophilus DNA polymerase deposited by Phang et al.
- the above-referenced enzyme deposited by Riggs et al. and the enzyme deposited by Phang et al. share 96.9% of their amino acid sequence identity.
- Bst 320 DNA polymerase shares 88.4% of the amino acid sequence identity with Bca DNA polymerase (Uemori et al. J. Biochem. 113: 401-410, 1993). Based on homology of the amino acid sequences, Bst 320 DNA polymerase is as close to DNA polymerases isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus as to the DNA polymerase isolated from Bacillus caldotenax , i.e. another species of bacillus.
- Bst 320 DNA polymerase and Bca DNA polymerase functionally exhibit 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, which is not associated with known amino acid sequence exonuclease motifs I, II and III as in the E. coli DNA polymerase I model, or other known Bacillus stearothermophilus polymerases.
- the inventors has studied the DNA polymerases of three different strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus (including DNA polymerase obtained from Bst 320) and the DNA polymerase of Bacillus caldotenax and found that they all exhibit a high degree of selective discrimination against incorporation of certain particular members of fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTPs, namely the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, as terminators onto the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction. This is especially the case when the preceding 3′ end base of the extending DNA fragment is a dGMP (G) or a dAMP (A). (By “dNTP” it is intended to denote the four commonly known deoxynucleotide triphosphates, dATP, dTTP, dCTP, and dGTP.)
- This selective discrimination causes missing peaks and ambiguous peaks on a color plot generated by the automated fluorescent DNA sequencer, and causes loss of sequencing data and erroneous base callings. This is shown in FIGS. 6 and 8 .
- the problem which faced the inventors was how to reduce the selective discrimination against the incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP by site-directed mutagenesis of a DNA polymerase, without increasing the rate of incorporation of the other two dye-labeled ddNTP terminators excessively.
- the new mutant must be able to incorporate more correctly base-matched dye-labeled ddCTP and/or dye-labeled ddATP terminators to the dGMP (G) and dAMP (A) bases, than to the dCMP (C) and dTMP (T) bases of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction.
- a blanket increase in the ability of an enzyme to incorporate all four dye-labeled ddNTPs to the same proportion would serve no useful purpose for the group of DNA polymerases isolated from mesophilic bacilli since, unlike the Taq DNA polymerase, the unmodified natural enzymes of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax already possess a high ability to incorporate fluorescent dye-labeled ddGTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddTTP, and even the fluorescent dye-labeled dddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP provided at the immediately preceding base at the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragment is not a “G” or an “A”.
- DNA polymerases isolated from strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax possess the same amino acids at certain specific positions in their amino acid sequence. For example, they all have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding to positions 342-344 and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 of the amino acid sequence of the DNA polymerase isolated from No 320 strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus .
- the most optimal modification to solve the problem of selective discrimination in direct fluorescent DNA sequencing for these DNA polymerases is to modify the four amino acids of the natural DNA polymerases referenced above in such a form that threonine-proline-leucine substitute respectively for leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions 342-344 and tyrosine substitutes for phenylalanine at position 422 in their amino acid sequences.
- the nucleotide sequence encoding the natural forms of the DNA polymerases are modified at positions 1024-1032 from CTCGAAGAG to ACCCCACTG and at position 1265 from T to A to encode for the DNA polymerases having the desired properties.
- DNA polymerases used in the inventors' research were obtained by overexpression of the genes encoding the naturally-occurring enzymes of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax . Subsequently, modified DNA polymerases obtained by overexpression of the site-directed mutated genes were used.
- This invention provides both the nucleotide and amino acid sequence for a modified DNA polymerase to illustrate the practice of this new approach of modifying a special group of DNA polymerases, as described below.
- the Bst 320 DNA polymerase is used for the unmodified, naturally-occurring DNA polymerase, although DNA polymerases isolated from other strains of mesophilic bacilli (for instance, Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax ) can be used as the starting enzymes for the genetic modification.
- the Bst 320 DNA polymerase is also capable of proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity.
- the invention provides the DNA and amino acid sequences for the isolated and purified DNA polymerase having this function. These sequences are also described below.
- the invention also contemplates an isolated strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus which produces a DNA polymerase having an ability to reduce selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP, but not fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddGTP and ddTTP, in the presence of dNTPs and the four fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators.
- the Bst strain produces a DNA polymerase which also has proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity during DNA sequencing of a DNA strand from a template.
- the invention also contemplates DNA polymerases obtained or otherwise derived from any bacillus strain, or made synthetically, as long as the amino acid sequences of the naturally-occurring DNA polymerases have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding respectively to positions 342-344 of Bst 320 DNA polymerase and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 of Bst 320 DNA polymerase.
- DNA polymerases derived from other strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus or Bacillus caldotenax or other mesophilic bacilli may be easily modified using conventional DNA modification techniques to include the amino acid or nucleotide substitutions identified above.
- the invention also provides a DNA construct comprising at least one of the above-described DNA polymerase sequences and a vector (such as a cloning vector or an expression vector), for introducing the DNA construct into eucaryotic or procaryotic host cells (such as an E. coli host cell).
- a vector such as a cloning vector or an expression vector
- the invention further provides a host cell stably transformed with the DNA construct in a manner allowing production of the peptide encoded by the DNA segment in the construct.
- the invention also provides improved methods for replicating DNA and sequencing DNA using the above-described DNA polymerases of the invention.
- the DNA polymerases are useful in both direct dye terminator DNA sequencing and dye-primer DNA sequencing.
- the method of sequencing a DNA strand may comprise the steps of:
- HiFi Bst or “Bst 320” DNA polymerase refers to the unmodified naturally occurring DNA polymerase having proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, either isolated from the cells of No. 320 strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus or produced by overexpression of the gene encoding this naturally occurring DNA polymerase. (This Bst strain and DNA polymerase are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,747,298.) “HiFi Bst-II” refers to the modified form of “HiFi Bst” DNA polymerase which has an ability to reduce selective discrimination against fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP. HiFi Bst-II is an example of one preferred embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 1 This graph shows the thermostability at 65° C. of HiFI Bst-II and HiFI Bst.
- FIG. 2 This shows a autoradiograph of a DNA sequencing gel obtained by using radiolabeled primer with HiFi Bst-II and HiFi Bst, and shows the dideoxy-nucleotide incorporation of HiFi Bst-II and HiFi Bst in a reaction mixture with a suboptimally low ddNTP/dNTP ratios.
- FIG. 3 This shows a autoradiograph of a DNA sequencing gel obtained by using radiolabeled dATP with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II in reaction mixtures with optimized ddNTP/dNTP ratios.
- the sequence pattern with HiFi Bst-II is better than that with HiFi Bst.
- FIG. 4 This shows the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst
- FIG. 5 This shows the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst-II.
- FIG. 6 This shows the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst
- FIG. 7 This shows the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst-II.
- FIG. 8 Like FIG. 6 , this shows the results of four fluorescent dye-labeled terminators DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst. In FIG. 8 corrections of the missing or ambiguous bases, according to the known pGEM sequence, are indicated below the letters “N” or below the incorrect base letters.
- the DNA polymerases of the invention are capable of reducing selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP, (but not ddGTP and ddTTP), in the presence of adequate amounts of dNTPs and the four terminators.
- the preferred source for the DNA polymerase is Bacillus stearothermophilus because DNA polymerase isolated from this mesophilic bacillus is highly processive, can be used and stored in dried down form, has an optimum temperature at 65° C., and can be used for direct DNA sequencing without precycling.
- the preferred Bst DNA polymerase is that isolated from strain 320 with an amino acid sequence as follows:
- Amino Acid Sequence (SEQ ID NO:2): AEGEKPLEEM EFAIVDVITE EMLADKAALV VEVMEENYHD APIVGIALVN EHGRFFMRPE TALADSQFLA WLADETKKKS MFDAKRAVVA LKWKGIELRG VAFDLLLAAY LLNPAQDAGD IAAVAKMKQY EAVRSDEAVY GKGVKRSLPD EQTLAEHLVR KAAAIWALEQ PFMDDLRNNE QDQLLTKLEH ALAAILAEME FTGVNVDTKR LEQMGSELAE QLRAIEQRIY ELAGQEFNIN SPKQLGVILF EKLQLPVLKK TKTGYSTSAD VLEKIAPHHE IVENILHYRQ LGKLQSTYIE GLLKVVRPDT GKVHTMFNQA LTQTGRLSSA EPNLQNIPIR LEEGRKIRQA FVPSEPDWLI FAADYSQIEL RVLAHIADDD NLIEAFQ
- A alanine (Ala) C: cysteine (Cys)
- D aspartic acid (Asp)
- E glutamic acid (Glu)
- F phenylanaline (Phe)
- G glycine (Gly) H: histidine (His)
- I isoleucine (Ile)
- K lysine (Lys)
- L leucine (Leu)
- M methionine (Met)
- N asparagine (Asn)
- P proline (Pro)
- Q glutamine (Gln)
- R arginine (Arg)
- S serine
- V valine (Val)
- W tryptophan (Trp)
- Y tyrosine (Tyr)
- the Bst 320 DNA polymerase is characterized by possessing a proofreading 3′-51 exonuclease activity.
- the nucleotide sequence encoding the unmodified Bst 320 DNA polymerase is indicated in SEQ ID NO:1, in Example 2 below.
- the following amino acid sequence represents the modified Bst 320 DNA polymerase as the preferred embodiment of this invention, modified from the naturally-occurring Bst 320 DNA polymerase at positions 342-344 to substitute threonine, proline and leucine, respectively, for leucine, glutamate and glutamate, and at position 422 to substitute tyrosine for phenylalanine.
- the modified Bst 320 DNA polymerase is encoded by a DNA sequence such as the following (SEQ ID NO:3): ATG GCCGAAGGGG AGAAACCGCT TGAGGAGATG GAGTTTGCCA TCGTTGACGT CATTACCGAA GAGATGCTTG CCGACAAGGC AGCGCTTGTC GTTGAGGTGA TGGAAGAAAA CTACCACGAT GCCCCGATTG TCGGAATCGC ACTAGTGAAC GAGCATGGGC GATTTTTTAT GCGCCCGGAG ACCGCGCTGG CTGATTCGCA ATTTTTAGCA TGGCTTGCCG ATGAAACGAA GAAAAAGC ATGTTTGACG CCAAGCGGGC AGTCGTTGCC TTAAAGTGGA AAGGAATTGA GCTTCGCGGC GTCGCCTTTG ATTTATTGCT CGCTAT TTGCTCAATC CGAT ATCGCTGCGG TGGCGAAAAT GAAACAATAT GAAGCGGTGC GGTC
- underlined nucleotides are substituted nucleotides produced by site-directed mutation of the naturally-occurring Bst 320 polymerase. (As would be apparent to someone skilled in this art, this DNA sequence does not indicate the starting codon.)
- the invention also contemplates any DNA sequence that is complementary to the modified Bst 320 DNA sequence, for instance, DNA sequences that would hybridize to the above DNA sequence of the modified DNA polymerase under stringent conditions. As would be understood by someone skilled in the art, the invention also contemplates any DNA sequence that encodes a peptide having these characteristics and properties (including degenerate DNA code).
- This invention also contemplates allelic variations and mutations (for instance, adding or deleting nucleotide or amino acids, sequence recombination or replacement or alteration) which result in no substantive change in the function of the DNA polymerase or its characteristics.
- the DNA polymerases encompass non-critical substitutions of nucleotides or amino acids that would not change functionality (i.e., such as those changes caused by a transformant host cell).
- the invention is intended to include fusion proteins and muteins of the unique DNA polymerases of this invention.
- DNA sequences and amino acid sequences for the modified DNA polymerase of this invention are also obtainable by, for instance, isolating and purifying DNA polymerase from a Bacillus stearothermophilus , or a bacterial strain otherwise derived from Bacillus stearothermophilus , or other mesophilic bacillus strains such as Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus .
- the DNA polymerases obtained from these organisms may be easily modified using conventional DNA modification techniques to achieve the reduction in fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP selective discrimination, as long as the unmodified amino acid sequences have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding respectively to positions 342-344 of Bst 320 DNA polymerase and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 of Bst 320 DNA polymerase.
- a DNA polymerase having the same properties and function from other strains.
- the enzymes In the DNA polymerases currently used in conventional DNA sequencing protocols, it is preferred that the enzymes have low or no exonuclease activity. However, in this invention, it is preferred that the DNA polymerases have a function of high fidelity (“HiFi”) nucleotide incorporation. Therefore, in one preferred embodiment the invention entails modification of a naturally-occurring Bst DNA polymerase having a proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. This preferred modified DNA polymerase (e.g., “HiFi Bst-II”) has a nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 3 and an amino sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 4.
- HiFi Bst-II has a nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 3 and an amino sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 4.
- strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus can be segregated into different groups according to the proof-reading exonuclease activity of their respective DNA polymerases.
- the invention also provides a DNA construct comprising at least one of the DNA sequences of the modified DNA polymerase and a vector (such as a cloning vector or an expression vector), for introducing the DNA construct into host cells.
- a vector such as a cloning vector or an expression vector
- An example of a suitable vector is pYZ34/LF, described below.
- the host cells need only be capable of being stably transformed with the DNA construct in a manner allowing production of the peptide encoded by the DNA segment in the construct (preferably in large quantity).
- the host cells may be of eucaryotic or procaryotic origin (such as a E. coli host cell).
- the host cell may be a mesophilic organism, although this is not a necessary requirement in order that a host cell be effective.
- the invention also provides improved methods for DNA sequencing using the above-described novel DNA polymerases.
- the methods entail sequencing a DNA strand by conventional protocols with the following modifications:
- dNTPs including dCTP, are incorporated equally effectively in the chain elongation during sequencing reaction catalyzed by the DNA polymerases of the invention with a high processivity and a high elongating rate.
- the invention contemplates other uses of the modified DNA polymerases.
- the DNA polymerase can also be use in (1) filling-in 5′ overhangs of DNA fragments; (2) synthesis of DNA probes by random primers labeling methodology; and (3) site-directed mutagenesis.
- This invention also involves a method to measure the proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of purified DNA polymerases.
- the method is useful to screen a large number of bacterial strains, such as Bacillus stearothermophilus and other mesophilic bacterial strains, to select a strain which produces a DNA polymerase with a high proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity.
- the method to test the proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of DNA polymerase was carried out as follows.
- a DNA primer and two DNA templates with following sequences were synthesized chemically, using a DNA synthesizer.
- 17-base primer 5′ CATTTTGCTGCCGGTCA 3′ (SEQ ID NO: 5) 1 mg/ml Template (a) 3′------GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCTT------5′ (SEQ ID NO: 6) 10 mg/ml Template (b) 3′-----GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCGG-----5′ (SEQ ID NO: 7) 10 mg/ml
- 1 ⁇ l (1 ⁇ g) of primer 5 ⁇ l (50 ⁇ g) of template (a), 1 ⁇ l of [ ⁇ - 32 P] dATP (800 Ci/mmole), 1 ⁇ l of dGTP (0.5 mM), 1 ⁇ l of Taq DNA polymerase. (1 unit), and 1 ⁇ l of buffer consisting of 500 mM Tris-Cl, pH 9.0, and 150 mM MgCl 2 , were mixed in a test tube and incubated in a 65° C. water bath for 5 minutes. The mixture was subject to alkaline denaturing gel electrophoresis.
- the radioactive band containing the 20-base nucleotide was isolated and dissolved in 12 ⁇ l of 10 mM Tris-Cl buffer, containing 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0.
- the difference in radioactivity expressed in cpm value between the washed filter paper and the unwashed filter paper in each pair was interpreted as representing the relative quantity of labeled nucleotides excised by the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity from the 3′ terminus of the primer.
- the bacterial strain, or even the strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus , from which a mesophilic DNA polymerase of the invention can be obtained may be derived using the above-described methods or others known in the art from strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus or other bacteria strains (especially mesophilic strains), including wild strains or mutant strains acquired by various means, including spontaneous mutation.
- the cells of Bst No. 320 were grown at 55° C. in a liquid medium consisting of 1% polypeptone, 0.5% yeast extract and 0.5% NaCl, pH7.0-7.2.
- the 3 hr old cells were collected after centrifugation and suspended in 4 volumes of TME buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH7.5, 10 mM ⁇ -mercaptoethanol, and 2 mM EDTA), containing 100 mg lysozyme and 23 mg phenylmethylsulphonyl-fluoride/ml.
- the cells were broken by sonication in ice.
- the supernatant was pooled after centrifugation at 28,000 rpm in a Spinco L 30 rotor.
- the purified Bst DNA polymerase of the invention was prepared according to Okazaki and Kornberg (7) with appropriate slight modifications and the large fragment of the DNA polymerase was obtained by partial digestion of the whole DNA polymerase with the proteinase subtilisin (type Carlsberg) basically according to Jacobsen et al. (8).
- the Bst polymerase was tested for proofreading and non-specific 3′-5′ exonuclease activities as described above. The results showed that the polymerase excised the mismatched incorporated nucleotides from the 3′ terminus of a double-stranded DNA at a high rate, reaching the plateau of hydrolysis in about 3 minutes, about 8 times more efficiently in the first 3 minutes of reaction than those correctly matched with the nucleotides of the template.
- This enzyme is referred to herein as HiFi Bst DNA polymerase, and is distinguishable from Bst DNA polymerases isolated from other strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus.
- Example 8 This prodedure of using HiFi Bst as the DNA polymerase in the classic radiolabeling Sanger reaction for DNA sequencing and its autoradiograph are illustrated in Example 8.
- Example 9 The data obtained by adapting this procedure to use HiFi Bst as the DNA polymerase in dye-labeled primer automated fluorescent DNA sequencing are illustrated in Example 9.
- the DNA fragment LF containing the gene initially isolated from the wild Bst 320 has the following sequence (see SEQ ID NO:1):
- LF DNA fragment containing the gene for Bst DNA polymerase having proofreading exonuclease activity was cloned from the expression vector pYZ23/LF into plasmid pUC119.
- the expression vector pYZ23/LF was digested with restriction enzymes Eco RI and Bam HI, and the DNA fragment LF was separated and cloned into plasmid pUC119 which had been previously digested with the same restriction enzymes.
- the constructed plasmid pUC119/LF was then transformed into E. coli CJ236.
- E. coli CJ236 For gaining the uracil-containing single-stranded pUC119/LF, a colony of E.
- coli CJ236 containing pUC119/LF was selected and inoculated into 2 ml of 2 ⁇ YT medium which was supplemented with 0.25 ug/ml of uridine and 2 ⁇ 10 8 to 4 ⁇ 10 8 pfu/ml of M13KO7 as helper phage. After incubation at 37° C. with strong agitation for 1 hour, a kanamycin solution (25 mg/ml in H 2 O) was added to the culture to a final concentration of 70 ug/ml. The incubation was allowed to continue for another 14-18 hours at 37° C. with strong agitation.
- the inventors found that the combined effects of changing the amino acids leucine-glutamate-glutamate (LEE) at the location 342-344, to respectively threonine-proline-leucine (TPL), and the amino acid phenylalanine (F) at location 422, to tyrosine (Y) in the peptide structure of HiFi Bst DNA polymerase markedly reduced its selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP to such a level that direct automated fluorescent DNA sequence (although not cycle-sequencing) can be performed with the dye-terminator technology when the mutated enzyme of the current invention is used.
- LEO leucine-glutamate-glutamate
- TPL threonine-proline-leucine
- F amino acid phenylalanine
- Y tyrosine
- this modified HiFi Bst now referred to as HiFi Bst-II DNA polymerase, exhibits the function of preferentially incorporating more fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP onto the 3′ end dGMP and the DAMP bases of the extending DNA strands during enzymatic reaction, than the unmodified naturally occurring HiFI Bst polymerase.
- this genetic modification of the HiFi Bst to HiFi Bst-II results in a DNA polymerase that reduces the selective discrimination against incorporation of the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP, rather than merely increases the ability of the parent enzyme to incorporate these dye-labeled dideoxynucleotides.
- HiFi Bst-II and the other novel similar DNA polymerases of this invention, can be used for the classic radiolabeling Sanger method.
- HiFi Bst-II appears to generate a better sequencing pattern than HiFi Bst and requires less ddNTPs to terminate the extending reaction ( FIG. 3 ).
- the ddNTP/dNTP ratios in the A, C, G and T mix were 40, 6.25, 18.25 and 18.72, respectively.
- the corresponding ddNTP/dNTP ratios in the A, C, G and T mix were 40, 2.5, 6.25 and 6.25, respectively. Therefore, there was an up-to about three-fold reduction in the amount of ddNTPs used after genetic modification of the naturally-occurring DNA polymerase.
- the optimized reaction mixtures for either HiFi Bst or HiFi Bst-II must contain much more ddNTPs than dNTPs to generate a ladder of DNA fragments for sequencing analysis because the DNA polymerases of the mesophilic bacilli tend to incorporate dNTPs more efficiently than ddNTPs.
- the above-described genetic modification appears to increase the ability of the naturally-occurring enzymes to incorporate ddNTP in the presence of a corresponding competing dNTP to about three-fold at the concentration ratios commonly used for DNA sequencing.
- both HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II can be adapted for fluorescent dye-labeled primer automated DNA sequencing and produce comparable results without selective suppression of any specific fluorescent peaks in the sequencing plot (see Example 9) although the peaks generated by HiFi Bst-II appear to be more even than those by HiFi Bst.
- Primer 1 was designed as following (see SEQ ID NO 10): 5′-CATTCCGATTCGG ACCCCACTG GGGCGGAAAACCG-3
- Primer 2 was designed as following (see SEQ ID NO: 9): 5′-GCCGTTAACT A CGGTATCGTTTACGG-3′
- the two primers designed above were annealed to the single-stranded uracil-containing pUC119/LF purified from above.
- T4 DNA polymerase was used to synthesize in vitro the strands of DNA complementary to the uracil-containing pUC119/LF template, and T4 ligase was used to ligate the synthesized strands to form a complete double-stranded plasmid which was composed of one single-stranded, not mutagenic, uracil-containing pUC119/LF and one complementary single-stranded, mutagenic, thymidine-containing DNA fragment that had been altered by primer 1 and primer 2 described above. These newly formed double-stranded plasmids were then transformed into E. coli JM109.
- dNTPs dATP, dCTP, dGTP and dTTP
- the template strand was rendered biologically inactive.
- the plasmid pUC119/LF-M was prepared from the strain of Escherichia coli JM109 containing the mutated DNA.
- the mutated DNA fragment (LF-M) containing the mutated gene for the Bst polymerase was recombined back into the expression vector pYZ23.
- the constructed plasmid pYZ23/LF-M was then transformed into Escherichia coli JF1125. The mutation was further confirmed by double-stranded dideoxy DNA sequencing of isolated plasmid.
- the strain of Escherichia coli JF1125 containing pYZ23/LF-M was inoculated into LB culture containing 100 ⁇ g/ml ampicillin, and was incubated overnight at 30° C. The overnight culture was inoculated into a large volume of fresh culture, and was incubated at 30° C. until the OD 600 of the culture reached 0.7. The culture was then heated at 41° C. for 3 hours for induction. The SDS-PAGE analysis of the cell extract showed that the cloned mutated gene for the modified Bst DNA polymerase was overexpressed.
- the expressed cells of Escherichia coli JF1125 containing pYZ23/LF-M grown in condition as described above were thawed and washed with buffer [10 mM Tris-HCl (pH7.5 at room temperature), 10 mM ⁇ -Mercaptoethanol, 2 mM EDTA, 0.9% NaCl].
- the pellets were then suspended in buffer [50 mM Tris-HCl (pH7.5 at room temperature), 10 mM ⁇ -Mercaptoethanol, 2 mM EDTA, 100 ⁇ g/ml Lysozyme, 23 ⁇ g/ml PMSF](4 ml/g pellet). After 20 min at room temperature, the mixture was cooled on salt-ice and sonicated briefly to complete lysis.
- the resulting modified Bst DNA polymerase has been proved to be homogenous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. And the enzyme obtained was stored in ⁇ 20° C.
- the DNA polymerases of Examples 1 and 5 were incubated at 65° C. for 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes respectively, and placed into ice-water immediately. The polymerase activity of these DNA polymerases was determined at 60° C.
- the polymerase activity of DNA polymerase was determined as follows:
- Reaction Storage 5 ⁇ Reaction Solution 60 ⁇ l dNTPs (1 mM each) 10 ⁇ l 1.5 ⁇ g/ ⁇ l DNase I activated 10 ⁇ l calf thymus DNA ddH 2 O 10 ⁇ l ⁇ - 32 P-dATP appropriate amt.
- Reaction Mixture Reaction Storage 30 ⁇ l Sample 5 ⁇ l ddH 2 O 65 ⁇ l
- reaction mixtures were prepared as per the recipe above, and incubated at 60° C. for 30 minutes. Then the reaction mixtures were pipetted onto DE-81 filters respectively. After all of the fluid has evaporated, the amount of radioactivity on each filter was measured with scintillation (X 1 ). The filters were washed three times with 0.3M Na 2 HPO 4 at room temperature, 10 minutes each times, dried at room temperature and then the amount of radioactivity on each filter was measured again (X 2 ).
- Unit definition of polymerase activity One unit is the amount of DNA polymerase required to incorporate 10 nanomoles of dNTPs into DNA in 30 minutes at 60° C.
- FIG. 1 shows the comparison of thermostabilty of HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II.
- the half life of HiFi Bst at 65° C. was 8.5 minutes, and that of HiFi Bst-II was 16 minutes.
- HiFi Bst-II was more thermostable than HiFi Bst.
- FIG. 2 shows the comparison of ddNTP incorporation of HiFi Bst-II DNA polymerase and HiFi Bst DNA polymerase.
- HiFi Bst-II is shown to have more effective ddNTP incorporation.
- the DNA synthesis was often terminated by ddNTP incorporation in the HiFi Bst-II mixture, and the result showed uniform bands with synthesized small or large DNA fragments.
- HiFi Bst had a lower ddNTP incorporation. The DNA synthesis by HiFi Bst was less terminated, and most of the synthesized products were the larger DNA fragments.
- FIG. 3 shows the comparison of radiolabeled DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II in their respective optimized reaction mixtures.
- the bands on a DNA sequencing gel with HiFi Bst-II were more uniform than those with HiFi Bst.
- the sequence pattern using HiFi Bst-II was better than that using HiFi Bst. This made the gel with HiFi Bst-II even easier to read.
- the ratio of dideoxy-nucleotide concentration to deoxy-nucleotide concentration in Premixed Nucleotide Solutions for HiFi Bst-II was lower than that for HiFi Bst.
- the ddATP/dATP, ddCTP/dCTP, ddGTP/dGTP and ddTTP/dTTP ratios were 40, 6.25, 18.75 and 18.75, respectively, for HiFi Bst.
- the corresponding ratios for HiFi Bst-II were 40, 2.5, 6.25 and 6.25, respectively. Therefore, the concentrations of ddNTPs used in the termination reaction are reduced to about three-folds after HiFi Bst has been genetically modified.
- reaction tube A C G T A-REG primer (0.2 uM) 1.0 ul C-FAM primer (0.2 uM) 1.0 ul G-TMR primer (0.4 uM) 1.0 ul T-ROX primer (0.4 uM) 1.0 ul A terminator mix 2.0 ul C terminator mix 2.0 ul G terminator mix 2.0 ul T terminator mix 2.0 ul 5 ⁇ Reaction buffer 2.0 ul 2.0 ul 2.0 ul 2.0 ul with DNA template Total volume 5.0 ul 5.0 ul 5.0 ul 5.0 ul 5.0 ul ul ul
- Dye primer DYEnamic Energy Transfer Dye Primers (from Amersham): ⁇ 21 M13 forward: 5′-FAM-S T SSSSSTGT*AAAACGACGGCC (SEQ ID NO: 11) AGT-3′
- FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II. Both DNA polymerases generated similar sequencing results although the peaks on the color plot by HiFi Bst II appear to be more even in height.
- FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 show the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II.
- FIG. 8 corrections of the missing or ambiguous bases, according to the known pGEM sequence, have been indicated below the letters “N” or below the incorrect base letters. This problem caused ambiguity in DNA sequencing. But it was resolved in dye-terminator DNA sequencing with the modified Bst DNA polymerase of this invention.
Abstract
The invention relates to genetical modification of DNA polymerase to reduce its innate selective sequence-related discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP in the enzymatic reaction for preparation of samples for automated florescent dye-labeled terminator DNA sequencing. The modified DNA polymerases are more resistant to heat inactivation and are more effective in dideoxynucleotide incorporation than current DNA polymerases.
Description
- This application is a continuation-in-part application of Ser. No. 08/544,643 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,747,298), filed Oct. 18, 1995, and Ser. No. 08/642,684, filed May 3, 1996, and the entire contents of both applications are incorporated herein by reference.
- The genetic material of all known living organisms is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), except in certain viruses whose genetic material may be ribonucleic acid (RNA). DNA consists of a chain of individual deoxynucleotides chemically linked in specific sequences. Each deoxynucleotide contains one of the four nitrogenous bases which may be adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) or thymine (T), and a deoxyribose, which is a pentose, with a hydroxyl group attached to its 3′ position and a phosphate group attached to its 5′ position. The contiguous deoxynucleotides that form the DNA chain are connected to each other by a phosphodiester bond linking the 5′ position of one pentose ring to the 3′ position of the next pentose ring in such a manner that the beginning of the DNA molecule always has a phosphate group attached to the 5′ carbon of a deoxyribose. The end of the DNA molecule always has an OH (hydroxyl) group on the 3′ carbon of a deoxyribose.
- DNA usually exists as a double-stranded molecule in which two antiparallel DNA strands are held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases of the individual nucleotides of the two DNA strands in a strictly matched “A-T” and “C-G” pairing manner. It is the order or sequence of the bases in a strand of DNA that determines a gene which in turn determines the type of protein to be synthesized. Therefore, the accurate determination of the sequence of the bases in a DNA strand which also constitutes the genetic code for a protein is of fundamental importance in understanding the characteristics of the protein concerned.
- The process used to determine the sequence of the bases in a DNA molecule is referred to as DNA sequencing. Among the techniques of DNA sequencing, the enzymatic method developed by Sanger et al. (1) is most popular. It is based on the ability of a DNA polymerase to extend a primer annealed to the DNA template to be sequenced in the presence of four normal deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs), namely, dATP, dCTP, dGTP and dTTP, and on the ability of the nucleotide analogs, the dideoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs), namely, ddATP, ddCTP, ddGTP and ddTTP, to terminate the extension of the elongating deoxynucleotide polymers at various lengths.
- In the classic one-step Sanger method, the sequence determination is carried out in a set of four separate tubes, each containing all four normal dNTPs, one of which is labeled with a radioactive isotope, 32P or 35S, for autoradiographic localization, a limiting amount of one of the four ddNTPs, a DNA polymerase, a primer, and the DNA template to be sequenced. As a result of the DNA polymerase activity, individual nucleotides or nucleotide analogs are added to the new DNA chains, all starting from the 3′ end of the primer in a 5′-3′ direction, and each linked to adjacent ones with a phosphodiester bond in a base sequence complementary to the DNA sequence of the template. Inasmuch as there is a nucleotide analog in the reaction mixture, each tube eventually contains numerous newly formed DNA strands of various lengths, all ending in a particular ddNTP, referred to as A, C, G or T terminator.
- After resolving the four sets of reaction products by high-resolution polyacrylamide/urea gel electrophoresis, the populations of the newly formed DNA strands are separated and grouped according to their molecular weight. An autoradiographic image of the gel will show the relative positions of these DNA strands as bands which differ from one another in distance measured by one nucleotide in length, all sharing an identical primer and terminating with a particular ddNTP (A, C, G or T). By reading the relative positions of these bands in the “ladder” of the autoradiograph, the DNA sequence of the template can be deduced.
- The DNA polymerase used in the reaction mixture plays a pivotal role in DNA sequencing analysis. To be useful for DNA sequencing, a DNA polymerase must possess certain essential properties. For example, it must have its natural 5′-3′ exonuclease activity removed by mutagenesis or by posttranslational modification, such as enzymatic digestion, and must be able to incorporate dNTPs and ddNTPs, without undue discrimination against ddNTP and with a sufficiently high processivity which refers to the ability of the enzyme to polymerize nucleotides onto a DNA chain continuously without being dislodged from the chain, and a sufficiently high elongation rate. A 5′-3′ exonuclease activity associated with a DNA polymerase will remove nucleotides from the primer, thus cause a heterogeneous 5′ end for the newly formed DNA strands, resulting in a false reading of the strand lengths on the sequencing gel. A DNA polymerase with a low processivity and a low elongation rate will cause many undesirable noise background bands of radioactivity due to the presence of DNA strands which are formed with improper lengths and improper terminations. Among the more commonly used DNA polymerases, Sequenase™ has a higher processivity and a higher elongation rate than others, such as the Klenow fragment, Taq, and Vent polymerases (2), and is therefore one of the most popular DNA polymerase selected for DNA sequencing to-date.
- However, even when a DNA polymerase has been endowed with all the essential properties listed above, it may still generate erroneous or misleading band patterns of radioactivity in the sequencing gel. These artifactual patterns do not faithfully reflect the true nucleotide sequence in the template being sequenced. They may be caused by premature termination of the elongating strands due to the presence of secondary structures formed along the template, such as “hairpins” in the regions that contain palindromic sequences or that are rich in G and C bases (3); or, they may occur as a result of inadequate “proof-reading” function of the DNA polymerase that will allow the removal of misincorporated nucleotides at the 3′ end of an elongating strand.
- Researchers in the field of DNA sequencing often have to use several approaches to confirm their findings in order to avoid being misled by these potentially erroneous sequence data. For example, they sometimes rely on repeating the same sequencing experiment with different DNA polymerases, or performing another sequencing reaction with the template which is complementary to the first single-stranded DNA template, and compare the results for possible discrepancies.
- Numerous investigators have tried to find an ideal DNA polymerase for enzymatic sequencing, i.e. an enzyme that not only has all the essential properties required for sequencing reaction, but also is capable of resolving the secondary hairpin structures and preventing the formation of strands containing nucleotides noncomplementary to those of the template being sequenced.
- The discovery by Ye and Hong (4) of the thermostable large fragment of DNA polymerase isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus (Bst), an enzyme that is functional over the temperature range between 25° C. and 75° C., but is most active at 65° C., and possesses all the essential properties for DNA sequencing, has largely solved the problem caused by secondary structures in the template since these secondary structures are destabilized when the sequencing reaction is carried out at 65° C. In the past few years since this enzyme was made commercially available under the name of Bst DNA Polymerase (Bio-Rad Laboratories), independent reports have confirmed that during sequencing reaction catalyzed by this enzyme all four dNTPs, including dCTP) and other nucleotide analogs, such as dITP and 7-deaza-dGTP, are incorporated equally effectively in the chain elongation, thus eliminating the weak “C” band phenomena often observed when other DNA polymerases are used, and producing a very good band uniformity on the sequencing gel. It has been further established that at this elevated temperature Bst DNA polymerase system can be used both for the classic Sanger one-step reaction as well as for the “labeling/termination” sequencing reaction, double-stranded DNA sequencing, and the incorporation of 35S-labeled nucleotides, and 32P-labeled nucleotides. Since this system can be placed at room temperature for at least two weeks without significant loss of its enzymatic activity, it has been adapted for automation of DNA sequencing which requires a stable DNA polymerase, using either fluorescent dye or radioactive isotope labeling. (See also 9, 12, and 13.)
- However, when this Bst enzyme is used for automated fluorescent DNA sequencing, only partially satisfactory results have been obtained with fluorescent dye-labeled primers (see 12 and EG Bulletin 1771 of Bio-Rad Laboratories), and even less satisfactory results are obtained with fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTP terminators. Even when fluorescent dye-labeled primers are used, a significant number of mismatched ddNTPs are incorporated onto the 3′ end of the extending nucleotides in the enzymatic reaction, thus generating erroneous sequencing data (see Bio-Rad EG Bulletin 1771). With this in mind, the inventors sought, and found, a better DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing, especially for automated fluorescent dye-labeled primer and fluorescent dye-labeled terminator sequencing.
- Another disadvantage of the Bst DNA polymerase currently known in the art is its lack of 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (5), and specifically, proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. A survey of the sequencing data collected from fourteen research centers which have used this Bst DNA polymerase for their DNA sequencing work on over 120 DNA clones showed that, statistically, base pair mismatching occurs at a rate of about 1.5×10−5. That is, approximately 1.5 errors can be expected in one hundred thousand nucleotide incorporations during nucleotide polymerization catalyzed by the enzyme.
- It is generally known that the formation of incorrect DNA sequences due to mismatching of base pairs between the template and the growing nucleotide chain in DNA sequencing may be prevented by a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity which “proof-reads” the nucleotide chain. However, even if a DNA polymerase exhibits 3′-5′ exonuclease activity in vitro, it is often the case that the polymerase will not adequately “proof-read”. Thus, the polymerase will not be capable of removing mismatched nucleotides from a newly formed DNA strand as efficiently as those nucleotides correctly matched with the nucleotides of the template. In other words, a 3′-5′ exonuclease may excise the correctly matched nucleotides at a faster rate than the mismatched ones from the 3′ terminus, or excise both the correctly matched and the mismatched nucleotides at the same rate. Consequently, even where the DNA polymerase has 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, it does not perform any useful proof-reading function during DNA polymerization.
- It is also known that a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity associated with a DNA polymerase, in the presence of low concentrations of dNTPs, often counteracts the normal chain elongation process catalyzed by the polymerase, induces cyclic incorporation and degradation of nucleotides over the same segment of template, or even operates more efficiently than the polymerase activity per se, to the extent of causing degradation of the primer. Consequently, removal of the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity along with the 5′-31 exonuclease activity from the native DNA polymerases by chemical means or by genetic engineering techniques has become a standard procedure in producing DNA polymerases for sequencing. This is a common strategy to preserve the essential properties of a DNA polymerase.
- For example, among the major commercially available sequencing enzymes (other than the native Taq (Thermus aquaticus) DNA polymerase which lacks a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity de novo) the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity has been removed from the native T7 DNA polymerase, which lacks a 5′-3′ exonuclease, either by a chemical reaction that oxidizes the amino acid residues essential for the exonuclease activity (Sequenase™ Version 1) or genetically by deleting 28 amino acids essential for the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (Sequenase™ 2).
- VentR (exo−) DNA polymerase, which is recommended as the preferred form of the Vent DNA polymerase for sequencing, also has its 3′-5′ exonuclease activity removed by genetic modification. The native Vent DNA polymerase and the Klenow fragment isolated from the native E. coli DNA polymerase I possess a 3′-5′ exonuclease; but these enzymes are no longer considered the enzymes of choice for DNA sequencing.
- The currently known Bst DNA polymerase (e.g., produced by Bio-Rad Laboratories) isolated and purified from the cells of Bacillus stearothermophilus for DNA sequencing is free of 3′-5′ exonuclease activity (5).
- IsoTherm™ DNA Polymerase, a commercially available Bst DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing, marketed by Epicentre Technologies (1402 Emil Street, Madison, Wis. 53713), is also based on a Bst DNA polymerase whose 3′-5′ exonuclease activity has been enzymatically removed (6).
- Only the rBst DNA Polymerase produced from an over-expressing recombinant clone in E. coli, which is the product of the DNA pol I gene of Bacillus stearothermophilus, possesses a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity in addition to a 5′-3′ exonuclease activity. However, due to the existence of an undesirable 5′-3′ exonuclease activity and a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of unknown characteristics, the latter product is not recommended by the company for DNA sequencing (6).
- Over the past 10 years there has been a trend to develop and improve the automated fluorescent DNA sequencing technology to replace the classic radioactive isotope labeling manual method for DNA sequencing because of the potential harmful effects of the radioactive materials to humans and because of the need for automated high throughput DNA sequencing systems. In using fluorescent dyes as markers for labeling the DNA strands generated in enzymatic reactions for sequencing, the dyes can be either coupled with the primer, or coupled with the ddNTP terminators, namely the dye-labeled ddATP, dye-labeled ddCTP, dye-labeled ddGTP and dye-labeled ddTTP. Sequencing techniques based on these two forms of labeling of the final enzymatic reaction products are commonly referred to as “dye primer sequencing” and “dye terminator sequencing”, respectively.
- In the dye primer sequencing, ddNTPs are employed as the chain terminators, as in the original classic Sanger method which uses radioactive isotope as the marker. The molecular structure of ddNTPs are almost identical to that of dNTPs, the natural building blocks of all DNA molecules. Therefore, any DNA polymerase which has been used for radioactive isotope manual DNA sequencing can be easily adapted for fluorescent dye primer DNA sequencing with equally satisfactory results. The disadvantage in the dye primer technology is that the primer for each template to be sequenced must be labeled with four different fluorescent dyes and that the enzymatic reaction must be performed in four separate test tubes each containing only one of the ddNTPs, namely ddATP, ddCTP, ddGTP or ddTTP, as in the classic Sanger radioisotope method.
- In the dye terminator technology for DNA sequencing, the fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, dye-labeled ddCTP, dye-labeled ddGTP and dye-labeled ddTTP are coupled with different fluorescent dyes, each emitting a specific light spectrum, thus directly reporting the type of ddNTP at the 3′ terminus of the DNA fragment. Unlike the situations in the dye primer technology in which four different fluorescent dyes are coupled to a primer incorporated into all newly formed DNA strands, these dye-labeled ddNTPs serve the dual function of a specific base terminator and a “color marker”. There is no need to label the primer for each new template, and the polymerase DNA extension reaction can be performed in a single test tube to generate the required specifically terminated and specifically dye-labeled DNA fragments of various sizes for DNA sequencing.
- The advantage of using fluorescent dye-labeled terminators for DNA sequencing is obvious. However, there are certain difficulties to overcome before an enzymatic reaction system suitable for a radioisotope technique or suitable for a dye primer technique can be adapted for a dye terminator technology. An increase of the molecular weight from less than 500 for a ddNTP terminator to about 800 or more for a fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTP terminator may be associated with potential three-dimensional structural changes. These molecular alterations may interfere with the process of incorporation of the dye-labeled ddNTPs as chain terminators by the DNA polymerase to the 3′ end of an extending DNA strand in terms of lowering the rate of incorporation, lowering the processivity of the enzyme for this new substrate, reducing the enzyme-terminator binding specificity and changing the enzyme-terminator binding kinetics.
- For example, both Taq DNA polymerase and Sequenase II™ (a T7 DNA polymerase) have been used for radioisotope labeling DNA sequencing with excellent results, and have been adapted for fluorescent dye-labeled primer DNA sequencing. But neither can be used for fluorescent dye-labeled terminator DNA sequencing technologies. As reported in U.S. Pat. No. 5,614,365, when the Taq DNA polymerase was used for fluorescent dye-labeled terminator chemical reactions, the reaction products generated no readable data on the DNA sequencer. Most of the fluorescence was either in unincorporated dye-ddNTPs at the leading front of the test gel, or in fragments greater than several hundred bases in length. Using a Taq DNA polymerase mutant in which the amino acid, phenylalanine, at position 667 of its amino acid sequence has been replaced by a tyrosine and which has an increased ability to incorporate dideoxynucleotides (6,000 times more efficient), to replace the unmodified Taq DNA polymerase for the experiment, the results are significantly improved. This F667Y mutant of Taq DNA polymerase is now marketed by Amersham Life Science, Inc. under the trademark ThermoSequenase™. It is used for cycle-sequencing in which the enzymatic reaction mixture is subjected to numerous cycles of extension-termination, denaturing and annealing to ensure that sufficient dye-terminator-labeled enzymatic reaction products are generated for the DNA sequencing procedure. Because of the low processivity of the parent Taq DNA polymerase, ThermoSequenase™ is not recommended for direct DNA sequencing without precyclings. Like Taq DNA polymerase, ThermoSequenase™ lacks a proof-reading exonuclease activity.
- Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax and Bacillus caldolyticus are classified as mesophilic microbes; although their DNA polymerases are referred to as thermostable (most active at 65° C.) they are inactivated at 70° C. or above. This is contrasted with other enzymes, such as Taq, which are truly thermophilic—that is, their DNA polymerases tolerate and remain active at temperatures higher that 95° C. These mesophilic bacillus strains, especially Bacillus stearothermophilus, produce DNA polymerases that are useful in DNA sequencing applications. However, a disadvantage of the DNA polymerases of these strains is that during DNA sequencing they all exhibit a high degree of selective discrimination against incorporation of certain particular members of fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTPs, namely the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, as terminators onto the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction. This peculiar characteristic of selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP of the natural DNA polymerases isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax was not previously recognized. Such selective discrimination is apparently sequence-related, and cannot be corrected or compensated by mere adjustment of the concentrations of the dNTPs.
- Thus, there is a need for a mesophilic bacillus DNA polymerase that does not selectively discriminate against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP, during dye primer or dye terminator DNA sequencing.
- This invention addresses the above-described problems associated with mesophilic bacillus DNA polymerases by providing novel DNA polymerases which, during direct DNA sequencing, reduce the innate selective discrimination against the incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, without increasing the rate of incorporation of the other two dye-labeled ddNTP terminators (ddTTP and ddGTP) excessively. In particular, this invention provides a novel genetic modification of the amino acid sequence of a highly processive DNA polymerase (such as isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus) that, unmodified, selectively discriminates against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP (but does not discriminate against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddTTP and ddGTP). The modification results in a reduction of the innate selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP, such that all four of the ddNTP terminators are effectively incorporated into the DNA primer elongated by the DNA polymerase. Thus, the modified DNA polymerase of this invention is effective in reducing the innate selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddATP and ddCTP characteristic of the DNA polymerase in its unmodified state.
- In particular, the preferred DNA polymerase is a modification of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of a mesophilic bacterium, such as Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus. The approach of modifying the DNA polymerase described herein may be used to modify other DNA polymerases which share a close amino acid homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus, as long as the unmodified DNA polymerases have a selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide ddCTP and/or ddATP as terminators in the enzymatic reaction for preparing materials for automated fluroescent DNA sequencing. Consequently, it is preferred that the modified DNA polymerase has an amino acid sequence that shares not less than 95% homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus.
- The particularly preferred mesophilic species is Bacillus stearothermophilus, which is highly heterogeneous. This is indicated by the wide range of DNA base compositions as well as the range of the phenotypic properties of strains assigned to this species (see Bergey's Manual of Systemic Bacteriology, Eds. P. H. A. Sneath, N. S. Mair, M. E. Sharpe and J. G. Holt, Williams & Wilkins, 1986, Vol. 2, page 1135). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the amino acid sequences of DNA polymerases isolated from various strains would be heterogeneous with potential functional differences. Although DNA polymerases isolated from the known standard strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus have been shown to lack a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, a questionable trace of “contaminating” 3151 exonuclease has been observed in a purified DNA polymerase preparations (see Kaboev et al., J. Bacteriology, Vol. 145, page 21-26, 1981).
- Consequently, the inventors began to address the above-identified problems in the art by discovering a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus (designated strain No. 320 for identification purposes; described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,747,298) that produces a DNA polymerase (designated Bst 320) with a proof-reading 3′-51 exonuclease activity which is absent in DNA polymerases isolated from other strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus. (For this invention, the term “proof-reading” is intended to denote that the DNA polymerase is capable of removing mismatched nucleotides from the 3′ terminus of a newly formed DNA strand at a faster rate than the rate at which nucleotides correctly matched with the nucleotides of the template are removed during DNA sequencing.) The
strain Bst 320 was deposited on Oct. 30, 1995 in the American Type Culture Collection, located at 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Md. 20852, and has been given ATCC Designation No. 55719. The DNA polymerase isolated fromBst 320 is composed of 587 amino acids as are the DNA polymerases of other known strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus, such as, for instance, the strains deposited by Riggs et al (Genbank Accession No. L42111) and by Phang et al. (Genbank Accession No. U23149). However, theBst 320 shares only 89.1% sequence identity at protein level with the Bacillus stearothermophilus DNA polymerase deposited by Riggs et al., and shares only 87.4% sequence identity at protein level with the Bacillus stearothermophilus DNA polymerase deposited by Phang et al. For comparison, the above-referenced enzyme deposited by Riggs et al. and the enzyme deposited by Phang et al. share 96.9% of their amino acid sequence identity. - The inventors studied a thermostable DNA polymerase isolated from a different species, Bacillus caldotenax (Bca), which also has an optimum active temperature at 65° C. The inventors discovered that the
Bst 320 DNA polymerase shares 88.4% of the amino acid sequence identity with Bca DNA polymerase (Uemori et al. J. Biochem. 113: 401-410, 1993). Based on homology of the amino acid sequences,Bst 320 DNA polymerase is as close to DNA polymerases isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus as to the DNA polymerase isolated from Bacillus caldotenax, i.e. another species of bacillus. It was also discovered that bothBst 320 DNA polymerase and Bca DNA polymerase functionally exhibit 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, which is not associated with known amino acid sequence exonuclease motifs I, II and III as in the E. coli DNA polymerase I model, or other known Bacillus stearothermophilus polymerases. - The inventors has studied the DNA polymerases of three different strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus (including DNA polymerase obtained from Bst 320) and the DNA polymerase of Bacillus caldotenax and found that they all exhibit a high degree of selective discrimination against incorporation of certain particular members of fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTPs, namely the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP, as terminators onto the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction. This is especially the case when the preceding 3′ end base of the extending DNA fragment is a dGMP (G) or a dAMP (A). (By “dNTP” it is intended to denote the four commonly known deoxynucleotide triphosphates, dATP, dTTP, dCTP, and dGTP.)
- This selective discrimination causes missing peaks and ambiguous peaks on a color plot generated by the automated fluorescent DNA sequencer, and causes loss of sequencing data and erroneous base callings. This is shown in
FIGS. 6 and 8 . - This disadvantage of the natural bacillus DNA polymerases in fluorescent dye-labeled terminator DNA sequencing cannot be corrected or compensated by mere adjustment of the concentrations of the dNTPs and the fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTPs in the reaction mixture. This selective discrimination against the specific dye-labeled ddNTPs is also sequence-related as demonstrated with respect to Bst in
FIGS. 6 and 8 , in which the missing or ambiguous “C” peaks and “A” peaks tend to occur immediately following a preceding “G”, peak or a preceding “A” peak. Of particular interest is the fact that the “C” and “A” peaks immediately following a preceding “C” or a preceding “T” peak are quite strong and resolvable in the same color plot analysis, indicating that the concentrations of dNTPs and the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and the fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP were adequate for the termination reaction. - According to the structural model studies carried out on E. coli DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment), certain amino acids in a particular region or regions of a DNA polymerase appear to play important roles in dNTP and ddNTP bindings and their final incorporation, and affect discrimination between deoxy and dideoxynucleotide substrates. For example, mutation of the amino acids arginine, asparagine, lysine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, aspartate, and glutamate in certain locations of amino acid sequences of Klenow fragment may affect the binding of dNTP and discrimination between deoxy and dideoxynucleotides. (See: Joyce, C. M., Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1:123-129, 1991. Joyce and Steitz, Annu. Rev. Biochem., 63:777-822, 1993, page 800. Carrol et al., Biochemistry 30:804-813, 1991).
- The problem which faced the inventors was how to reduce the selective discrimination against the incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddATP by site-directed mutagenesis of a DNA polymerase, without increasing the rate of incorporation of the other two dye-labeled ddNTP terminators excessively. In particular, the new mutant must be able to incorporate more correctly base-matched dye-labeled ddCTP and/or dye-labeled ddATP terminators to the dGMP (G) and dAMP (A) bases, than to the dCMP (C) and dTMP (T) bases of the extending DNA fragments during enzymatic reaction. A blanket increase in the ability of an enzyme to incorporate all four dye-labeled ddNTPs to the same proportion would serve no useful purpose for the group of DNA polymerases isolated from mesophilic bacilli since, unlike the Taq DNA polymerase, the unmodified natural enzymes of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax already possess a high ability to incorporate fluorescent dye-labeled ddGTP and fluorescent dye-labeled ddTTP, and even the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP provided at the immediately preceding base at the 3′ end of the extending DNA fragment is not a “G” or an “A”.
- The inventors found that DNA polymerases isolated from strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax possess the same amino acids at certain specific positions in their amino acid sequence. For example, they all have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding to positions 342-344 and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 of the amino acid sequence of the DNA polymerase isolated from No 320 strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus. The inventors further discovered that the most optimal modification to solve the problem of selective discrimination in direct fluorescent DNA sequencing for these DNA polymerases is to modify the four amino acids of the natural DNA polymerases referenced above in such a form that threonine-proline-leucine substitute respectively for leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions 342-344 and tyrosine substitutes for phenylalanine at position 422 in their amino acid sequences. Accordingly, the nucleotide sequence encoding the natural forms of the DNA polymerases are modified at positions 1024-1032 from CTCGAAGAG to ACCCCACTG and at position 1265 from T to A to encode for the DNA polymerases having the desired properties. The combined effects of these amino acid modifications reduce the selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP of the naturally-occurring mesophilic bacillus DNA polymerases during enzymatic reaction for direct automated fluorescent DNA sequencing.
- Initially, the DNA polymerases used in the inventors' research were obtained by overexpression of the genes encoding the naturally-occurring enzymes of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax. Subsequently, modified DNA polymerases obtained by overexpression of the site-directed mutated genes were used. This invention provides both the nucleotide and amino acid sequence for a modified DNA polymerase to illustrate the practice of this new approach of modifying a special group of DNA polymerases, as described below.
- In one preferred embodiment, the
Bst 320 DNA polymerase is used for the unmodified, naturally-occurring DNA polymerase, although DNA polymerases isolated from other strains of mesophilic bacilli (for instance, Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax) can be used as the starting enzymes for the genetic modification. As noted above, theBst 320 DNA polymerase is also capable of proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. In particular, the invention provides the DNA and amino acid sequences for the isolated and purified DNA polymerase having this function. These sequences are also described below. - The invention also contemplates an isolated strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus which produces a DNA polymerase having an ability to reduce selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP, but not fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddGTP and ddTTP, in the presence of dNTPs and the four fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators. Preferably, the Bst strain produces a DNA polymerase which also has proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity during DNA sequencing of a DNA strand from a template.
- As mentioned above, the invention also contemplates DNA polymerases obtained or otherwise derived from any bacillus strain, or made synthetically, as long as the amino acid sequences of the naturally-occurring DNA polymerases have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding respectively to positions 342-344 of
Bst 320 DNA polymerase and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 ofBst 320 DNA polymerase. For example, DNA polymerases derived from other strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus or Bacillus caldotenax or other mesophilic bacilli may be easily modified using conventional DNA modification techniques to include the amino acid or nucleotide substitutions identified above. - The invention also provides a DNA construct comprising at least one of the above-described DNA polymerase sequences and a vector (such as a cloning vector or an expression vector), for introducing the DNA construct into eucaryotic or procaryotic host cells (such as an E. coli host cell). In addition, the invention further provides a host cell stably transformed with the DNA construct in a manner allowing production of the peptide encoded by the DNA segment in the construct.
- The invention also provides improved methods for replicating DNA and sequencing DNA using the above-described DNA polymerases of the invention. The DNA polymerases are useful in both direct dye terminator DNA sequencing and dye-primer DNA sequencing.
- Preferably, the method of sequencing a DNA strand may comprise the steps of:
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- i) hybridizing a primer to a DNA template to be sequenced;
- ii) extending the primer using a DNA polymerase which has an ability to reduce selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP, in the presence of adequate amounts of nucleotide bases dATP, dGTP, dCTP and dTTP, or their analogs, and the four fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators,
- under such conditions that the DNA strand is sequenced.
- Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description and examples below.
- In the Figures and throughout this disclosure, “HiFi Bst” or “
Bst 320” DNA polymerase refers to the unmodified naturally occurring DNA polymerase having proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, either isolated from the cells of No. 320 strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus or produced by overexpression of the gene encoding this naturally occurring DNA polymerase. (This Bst strain and DNA polymerase are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,747,298.) “HiFi Bst-II” refers to the modified form of “HiFi Bst” DNA polymerase which has an ability to reduce selective discrimination against fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP. HiFi Bst-II is an example of one preferred embodiment of this invention. -
FIG. 1 . This graph shows the thermostability at 65° C. of HiFI Bst-II and HiFI Bst. -
- Y: relative polymerase activity (%)
- X: incubation time (minutes).
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FIG. 2 . This shows a autoradiograph of a DNA sequencing gel obtained by using radiolabeled primer with HiFi Bst-II and HiFi Bst, and shows the dideoxy-nucleotide incorporation of HiFi Bst-II and HiFi Bst in a reaction mixture with a suboptimally low ddNTP/dNTP ratios. -
- Template: single-stranded M13 mp18;
- Primer: −20M13 forward primer.
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FIG. 3 . This shows a autoradiograph of a DNA sequencing gel obtained by using radiolabeled dATP with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II in reaction mixtures with optimized ddNTP/dNTP ratios. The sequence pattern with HiFi Bst-II is better than that with HiFi Bst. -
- Template: single-stranded M13 mp18;
- Primer: −20M13 forward primer.
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FIG. 4 . This shows the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst -
- Template: single-stranded pGEM-3Zf(+);
- Primer: −21M13 forward DYEnamic Energy Transfer Dye Primers.
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FIG. 5 . This shows the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst-II. -
- Template: single-stranded M13mp18;
- Primer: −21M13 forward DYEnamic Energy Transfer Dye Primers.
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FIG. 6 . This shows the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst -
- Template: single-stranded pGEM-3Zf(+)
- Primer: −20M13 forward primer.
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FIG. 7 . This shows the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst-II. -
- Template: single-stranded M13 mp18;
- Primer: −20M13 forward primer.
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FIG. 8 . LikeFIG. 6 , this shows the results of four fluorescent dye-labeled terminators DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst. InFIG. 8 corrections of the missing or ambiguous bases, according to the known pGEM sequence, are indicated below the letters “N” or below the incorrect base letters. -
- Template: single-stranded pGEM-3Zf(+);
- Primer: −20M13 forward primer.
- The DNA polymerases of the invention are capable of reducing selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP, (but not ddGTP and ddTTP), in the presence of adequate amounts of dNTPs and the four terminators.
- The inventors discovered that certain modifications of the amino acid sequence of DNA polymerases (i.e., modifying the amino acids at positions 342-344 to substitute threonine, proline and leucine, respectively, for leucine, glutamate and glutamate, and modifying the amino acid at position 422 to substitute tyrosine for phenylalanine, as corresponding to the amino acid sequence of
Bst 320 DNA polymerase) result in a marked reduction of the innate selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide ddCTP and ddATP, that is characteristic of the unmodified DNA polymerase. This reduction of selective discrimination can be demonstrated by direct automated fluorescent terminator DNA sequencing as recovered missing or ambiguous “C” peaks and/or “A” peaks in the automated sequencing results, using a known template as standard. - The preferred source for the DNA polymerase is Bacillus stearothermophilus because DNA polymerase isolated from this mesophilic bacillus is highly processive, can be used and stored in dried down form, has an optimum temperature at 65° C., and can be used for direct DNA sequencing without precycling. The preferred Bst DNA polymerase is that isolated from
strain 320 with an amino acid sequence as follows: - Amino Acid Sequence (SEQ ID NO:2):
AEGEKPLEEM EFAIVDVITE EMLADKAALV VEVMEENYHD APIVGIALVN EHGRFFMRPE TALADSQFLA WLADETKKKS MFDAKRAVVA LKWKGIELRG VAFDLLLAAY LLNPAQDAGD IAAVAKMKQY EAVRSDEAVY GKGVKRSLPD EQTLAEHLVR KAAAIWALEQ PFMDDLRNNE QDQLLTKLEH ALAAILAEME FTGVNVDTKR LEQMGSELAE QLRAIEQRIY ELAGQEFNIN SPKQLGVILF EKLQLPVLKK TKTGYSTSAD VLEKIAPHHE IVENILHYRQ LGKLQSTYIE GLLKVVRPDT GKVHTMFNQA LTQTGRLSSA EPNLQNIPIR LEEGRKIRQA FVPSEPDWLI FAADYSQIEL RVLAHIADDD NLIEAFQRDL DIHTKTAMDI FQLSEEEVTA NMRRQAKAVN FGIVYGISDY GLAQNLNITR KEAAEFIERY FASFPGVKQY MENIVQEAKQ KGYVTTLLHR RRYLPDITSR NFNVRSFAER TAMNTPIQGS AADIIKKAMI DLAARLKEEQ LQARLLLQVH DELILEAPKE EIERLCELVP EVMEQAVTLR VPLKVDYHYG PTWYDAK - The characters represent the following amino acids:
- where,
A: alanine (Ala) C: cysteine (Cys) D: aspartic acid (Asp) E: glutamic acid (Glu) F: phenylanaline (Phe) G: glycine (Gly) H: histidine (His) I: isoleucine (Ile) K: lysine (Lys) L: leucine (Leu) M: methionine (Met) N: asparagine (Asn) P: proline (Pro) Q: glutamine (Gln) R: arginine (Arg) S: serine (Ser) T: threonine (Thr) V: valine (Val) W: tryptophan (Trp) Y: tyrosine (Tyr) - The
Bst 320 DNA polymerase is characterized by possessing a proofreading 3′-51 exonuclease activity. - The nucleotide sequence encoding the
unmodified Bst 320 DNA polymerase is indicated in SEQ ID NO:1, in Example 2 below. - The following amino acid sequence represents the modified
Bst 320 DNA polymerase as the preferred embodiment of this invention, modified from the naturally-occurringBst 320 DNA polymerase at positions 342-344 to substitute threonine, proline and leucine, respectively, for leucine, glutamate and glutamate, and at position 422 to substitute tyrosine for phenylalanine. - Amino Acid Sequence (SEQ ID:No 4):
MAEGEKPLEEMEFAIVDVITEEMLADKAALVVEVMEENYHDAPIV GIALVNEHGRFFMRPETALADSQFLAWLADETKKKSMFDAKRAVV ALKWKGIELRGVAFDLLLAAYLLNPAQDAGDIAAVAKMKQYEAVR SDEAVYGKGVKRSLPDEQTLAEHLVRKAAAIWALEQPFMDDLRNN EQDQLLTKLEHALAAILAEMEFTGVNVDTKRLEQMGSELAEQLRA IEQRIYELAGQEFNINSPKQLGVILFEKLQLPVLKKTKTGYSTSA DVLEKLAPHHEIVENILHYRQLGKLQSTYIEGLLKVVRPDTGKVH TMFNQALTQTGRLSSAEPNLQNIPIRTPLGRKIRQAFVPSEPDWL IFAADYSQIELRVLAHIADDDNLIEAFQRDLDIHTKTAMDIFQLS EEEVTANMRRQAKAVNYGIVYGISDYGLAQNLNITRKEAAEFIER YFASFPGVKQYMENIVQEAKQKGYVTTLLHRRRYLPDITSRNFNV RSFAERTAMNTPIQGSAADIIKKAMIDLAARLKEEQLQARLLLQV HDELILEAPKEEIERLCELVPEVMEQAVTLRVPLKVDYHYGPTWY DAK
The underlined amino acids are substituted amino acids produced by site-directed mutation of the naturally-occurringBst 320 DNA polymerase. - The modified
Bst 320 DNA polymerase is encoded by a DNA sequence such as the following (SEQ ID NO:3):ATG GCCGAAGGGG AGAAACCGCT TGAGGAGATG GAGTTTGCCA TCGTTGACGT CATTACCGAA GAGATGCTTG CCGACAAGGC AGCGCTTGTC GTTGAGGTGA TGGAAGAAAA CTACCACGAT GCCCCGATTG TCGGAATCGC ACTAGTGAAC GAGCATGGGC GATTTTTTAT GCGCCCGGAG ACCGCGCTGG CTGATTCGCA ATTTTTAGCA TGGCTTGCCG ATGAAACGAA GAAAAAAAGC ATGTTTGACG CCAAGCGGGC AGTCGTTGCC TTAAAGTGGA AAGGAATTGA GCTTCGCGGC GTCGCCTTTG ATTTATTGCT CGCTGCCTAT TTGCTCAATC CGGCTCAAGA TGCCGGCGAT ATCGCTGCGG TGGCGAAAAT GAAACAATAT GAAGCGGTGC GGTCGGATGA AGCGGTCTAT GGCAAAGGCG TCAAGCGGTC GCTGCCGGAC GAACAGACGC TTGCTGAGCA TCTCGTTCGC AAAGCGGCAG CCATTTGGGC GCTTGAGCAG CCGTTTATGG ACGATTTGCG GAACAACGAA CAAGATCAAT TATTAACGAA GCTTGAGCAC GCGCTGGCGG CGATTTTGGC TGAAATGGAA TTCACTGGGG TGAACGTGGA TACAAAGCGG CTTGAACAGA TGGGTTCGGA GCTCGCCGAA CAACTGCGTG CCATCGAGCA GCGCATTTAC GAGCTAGCCG GCCAAGAGTT CAACATTAAC TCACCAAAAC AGCTCGGAGT CATTTTATTT GAAAAGCTGC AGCTACCGGT GCTGAAGAAG ACGAAAACAG GCTATTCGAC TTCGGCTGAT GTGCTTGAGA AGCTTGCGCC GCATCATGAA ATCGTCGAAA ACATTTTGCA TTACCGCCAG CTTGGCAAAC TGCAATCAAC GTATATTGAA GGATTGTTGA AAGTTGTGCG CCCTGATACC GGCAAAGTGC ATACGATGTT CAACCAAGCG CTGACGCAAA CTGGGCGGCT CAGCTCGGCC GAGCCGAACT TGCAAAACAT TCCGATTCGG ACCCCACTGG GGCGGAAAAT CCGCCAAGCG TTCGTCCCGT CAGAGCCGGA CTGGCTCATT TTCGCCGCCG ATTACTCACA AATTGAATTG CGCGTCCTCG CCCATATCGC CGATGACGAC AATCTAATTG AAGCGTTCCA ACGCGATTTG GATATTCACA CAAAAACGGC GATGGACATT TTCCAGTTGA GCGAAGAGGA AGTCACGGCC AACATGCGCC GCCAGGCAAA GGCCGTTAAC TACGGTATCG TTTACGGAAT TAGCGATTAC GGATTGGCGC AAAACTTGAA CATTACGCGC AAAGAAGCTG CCGAATTTAT CGAACGTTAC TTCGCCAGCT TTCCGGGCGT AAAGCAGTAT ATGGAAAACA TAGTGCAAGA AGCGAAACAG AAAGGATATG TGACAACGCT GTTGCATCGG CGCCGCTATT TGCCTGATAT TACAAGCCGC AATTTCAACG TCCGCAGTTT TGCAGAGCGG ACGGCCATGA ACACGCCAAT TCAAGGAAGC GCCGCTGACA TTATTAAAAA AGCGATGATT GATTTAGCGG CACGGCTGAA AGAAGAGCAG CTTCAGGCTC GTCTTTTGCT GCAAGTGCAT GACGAGCTCA TTTTGGAAGC GCCAAAAGAG GAAATTGAGC GATTATGTGA GCTTGTTCCG GAAGTGATGG AGCAGGCCGT TACGCTCCGC GTGCCGCTGA AAGTCGACTA CCATTACGGC CCAACATGGT ATGATGCCAA A - The characters represent the following nucleotides:
A: Adenosine T: Thymidine C: Cytidine G: Guanosine - The underlined nucleotides are substituted nucleotides produced by site-directed mutation of the naturally-occurring
Bst 320 polymerase. (As would be apparent to someone skilled in this art, this DNA sequence does not indicate the starting codon.) - The invention also contemplates any DNA sequence that is complementary to the modified
Bst 320 DNA sequence, for instance, DNA sequences that would hybridize to the above DNA sequence of the modified DNA polymerase under stringent conditions. As would be understood by someone skilled in the art, the invention also contemplates any DNA sequence that encodes a peptide having these characteristics and properties (including degenerate DNA code). - This invention also contemplates allelic variations and mutations (for instance, adding or deleting nucleotide or amino acids, sequence recombination or replacement or alteration) which result in no substantive change in the function of the DNA polymerase or its characteristics. For instance, the DNA polymerases encompass non-critical substitutions of nucleotides or amino acids that would not change functionality (i.e., such as those changes caused by a transformant host cell). In addition, the invention is intended to include fusion proteins and muteins of the unique DNA polymerases of this invention.
- The DNA sequences and amino acid sequences for the modified DNA polymerase of this invention are also obtainable by, for instance, isolating and purifying DNA polymerase from a Bacillus stearothermophilus, or a bacterial strain otherwise derived from Bacillus stearothermophilus, or other mesophilic bacillus strains such as Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus. The DNA polymerases obtained from these organisms may be easily modified using conventional DNA modification techniques to achieve the reduction in fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and ddATP selective discrimination, as long as the unmodified amino acid sequences have leucine-glutamate-glutamate at positions corresponding respectively to positions 342-344 of
Bst 320 DNA polymerase and phenylalanine at a position corresponding to position 422 ofBst 320 DNA polymerase. For instance, using the primers and methods of screening described herein, someone skilled in the art could isolate a DNA polymerase having the same properties and function from other strains. - In the DNA polymerases currently used in conventional DNA sequencing protocols, it is preferred that the enzymes have low or no exonuclease activity. However, in this invention, it is preferred that the DNA polymerases have a function of high fidelity (“HiFi”) nucleotide incorporation. Therefore, in one preferred embodiment the invention entails modification of a naturally-occurring Bst DNA polymerase having a proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. This preferred modified DNA polymerase (e.g., “HiFi Bst-II”) has a nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 3 and an amino sequence indicated in SEQ ID:NO 4. To initially obtain a Bst DNA polymerase having proofreading 3′-5′ activity, strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus can be segregated into different groups according to the proof-reading exonuclease activity of their respective DNA polymerases.
- The invention also provides a DNA construct comprising at least one of the DNA sequences of the modified DNA polymerase and a vector (such as a cloning vector or an expression vector), for introducing the DNA construct into host cells. An example of a suitable vector is pYZ34/LF, described below.
- The host cells need only be capable of being stably transformed with the DNA construct in a manner allowing production of the peptide encoded by the DNA segment in the construct (preferably in large quantity). The host cells may be of eucaryotic or procaryotic origin (such as a E. coli host cell). For instance, the host cell may be a mesophilic organism, although this is not a necessary requirement in order that a host cell be effective.
- The invention also provides improved methods for DNA sequencing using the above-described novel DNA polymerases. The methods entail sequencing a DNA strand by conventional protocols with the following modifications:
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- i) hybridizing a primer to a DNA template to be sequenced;
- ii) extending the primer using a DNA polymerase described above, in the presence of radiolabeled dATP, nucleotides dGTP, dCTP and dTTP, or their analogs, and ddNTP chain terminators; and
- iii) allowing a DNA strand to be sequenced.
- All four dNTPs, including dCTP, are incorporated equally effectively in the chain elongation during sequencing reaction catalyzed by the DNA polymerases of the invention with a high processivity and a high elongating rate.
- Preferably the nucleotide premix concentrations of modified Bst DNA polymerase used in radiolabeled DNA sequencing are as following:
- A mix: dATP 0.8 μM, dCTP 80M,
dGTP 80 μM,dTTP 80 μM, ddATP 25 μM; - C mix: dATP 0.8 μM, dCTP 8 μM, dGTP 80M, dTTP 80M,
ddCTP 20 μM; - G mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM, dGTP 8 μM,dTTP 80 μM,ddGTP 50 μM; - T mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM,dGTP 80 μM, dTTP 8 μM,ddTTP 50 μM. (This mixture is useful for the particular modifiedBst 320 DNA polymerase set forth above, as well as for other modified Bst DNA polymerases.) - In addition, the invention contemplates other uses of the modified DNA polymerases. For instance, the DNA polymerase can also be use in (1) filling-in 5′ overhangs of DNA fragments; (2) synthesis of DNA probes by random primers labeling methodology; and (3) site-directed mutagenesis.
- The following non-limiting examples are illustrative of the invention.
- This invention also involves a method to measure the proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of purified DNA polymerases. The method is useful to screen a large number of bacterial strains, such as Bacillus stearothermophilus and other mesophilic bacterial strains, to select a strain which produces a DNA polymerase with a high proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. For instance, the method to test the proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of DNA polymerase was carried out as follows.
- A DNA primer and two DNA templates with following sequences were synthesized chemically, using a DNA synthesizer.
17-base primer 5′ CATTTTGCTGCCGGTCA 3′ (SEQ ID NO: 5) 1 mg/ml Template (a) 3′------GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCTT------5′ (SEQ ID NO: 6) 10 mg/ml Template (b) 3′-----GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCGG-----5′ (SEQ ID NO: 7) 10 mg/ml - To produce the radiolabeled primer, 1 μl (1 μg) of primer, 5 μl (50 μg) of template (a), 1 μl of [α-32P] dATP (800 Ci/mmole), 1 μl of dGTP (0.5 mM), 1 μl of Taq DNA polymerase. (1 unit), and 1 μl of buffer consisting of 500 mM Tris-Cl, pH 9.0, and 150 mM MgCl2, were mixed in a test tube and incubated in a 65° C. water bath for 5 minutes. The mixture was subject to alkaline denaturing gel electrophoresis. The radioactive band containing the 20-base nucleotide was isolated and dissolved in 12 μl of 10 mM Tris-Cl buffer, containing 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0. The final product represents the following labeled 20-base primer.
5′ CATTTTGCTGCCGGTCAGA*A* 3′ (SEQ ID NO: 8) (* = 32P labeled) - To produce radiolabeled primer-template complexes, 5 μl of the labeled primer was mixed with 10 μl of template (a) or template (b) respectively to form the following:
Complex (a) 5′CATTTTGCTGCCGGTCAGA*A* 3′ (same as SEQ ID NO: 8) 3′GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCT T 5′ (same as SEQ ID NO: 6) Complex (b) 5′ CATTTTGCTGCCGGTCAGA*A* 3′ (same as SEQ ID NO: 8) 3′ GTAAAACGACGGCCAGTCG G 5′ (same as SEQ ID NO: 7)
The free radiolabeled primer was removed through a G-50 Sephadex column. - An aliquot of complex (a) which had two correctly matched radiolabeled A*s at the 3′ terminus of the primer, and an aliquot of complex (b) which had two mismatched A*s at the 3′ terminus of the primer, were then pipetted into two individual vials of scintillation fluid and their radioactivity was measured in a scintillation counter, and both complexes were adjusted with buffer to a concentration containing the same molarity of incorporated [α-32P] dAMP.
- To perform the proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity, 20 μl of complex (a) or complex (b), 8 μl reaction buffer consisting of 15 mM Tris-Cl and 15 mM MgCl21 pH 8.5, 4 units of DNA polymerase, and enough water to make up a total volume of 40 μl were pipetted into a test tube and mixed well. The mixture was subdivided into aliquots of 3 μl each in 0.5 ml microcentrifuge tubes and was then covered with 3 μl paraffin in each tube. The microcentrifuge tubes were incubated in a 65° C. water bath. At 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, and 20 minutes, a pair of the microcentrifuge tubes were taken out from the water bath and the content of each tube was dotted onto a DE-81 Whatman filter paper. One of each pair of the filter papers was put in scintillation fluid directly and the radioactivity was counted in cpm value in a scintillation counter; the other was washed three times in 0.3 M sodium phosphate buffer, pH 6.8 before being put into the scintillation fluid for counting.
- The difference in radioactivity expressed in cpm value between the washed filter paper and the unwashed filter paper in each pair was interpreted as representing the relative quantity of labeled nucleotides excised by the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity from the 3′ terminus of the primer. A DNA polymerase that excised the radiolabeled nucleotides A*s from complex (b) more efficiently than from complex (a) possessed proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. A DNA polymerase that excised the radiolabeled nucleotides A*s from complex (a) faster than from complex (b), or at nearly the same rate, was interpreted as possessing a non-specific 3′-5′ exonuclease activity which is considered unsuitable for DNA sequencing.
- Using these methods, a strain of bacteria was isolated from among the strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus from various sources which is distinguished in its fast growth rate. This strain reached an optimum exponential growth within 3 hours for DNA polymerase production. The strain was also able to produce a DNA polymerase with a proof-reading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. This strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus was labeled Bst No. 320.
- As persons skilled in this art would appreciate, the bacterial strain, or even the strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus, from which a mesophilic DNA polymerase of the invention can be obtained may be derived using the above-described methods or others known in the art from strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus or other bacteria strains (especially mesophilic strains), including wild strains or mutant strains acquired by various means, including spontaneous mutation.
- To prepare the preferred purified Bst DNA polymerase, the cells of Bst No. 320 were grown at 55° C. in a liquid medium consisting of 1% polypeptone, 0.5% yeast extract and 0.5% NaCl, pH7.0-7.2. The 3 hr old cells were collected after centrifugation and suspended in 4 volumes of TME buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH7.5, 10 mM β-mercaptoethanol, and 2 mM EDTA), containing 100 mg lysozyme and 23 mg phenylmethylsulphonyl-fluoride/ml. The cells were broken by sonication in ice. The supernatant was pooled after centrifugation at 28,000 rpm in a
Spinco L 30 rotor. - The purified Bst DNA polymerase of the invention was prepared according to Okazaki and Kornberg (7) with appropriate slight modifications and the large fragment of the DNA polymerase was obtained by partial digestion of the whole DNA polymerase with the proteinase subtilisin (type Carlsberg) basically according to Jacobsen et al. (8).
- The procedure for purification of enzyme was followed as described in Ye and Hong (4). This Bst DNA polymerase possessed a proof-reading 31′-5′ exonuclease activity.
- The Bst polymerase was tested for proofreading and non-specific 3′-5′ exonuclease activities as described above. The results showed that the polymerase excised the mismatched incorporated nucleotides from the 3′ terminus of a double-stranded DNA at a high rate, reaching the plateau of hydrolysis in about 3 minutes, about 8 times more efficiently in the first 3 minutes of reaction than those correctly matched with the nucleotides of the template. This enzyme is referred to herein as HiFi Bst DNA polymerase, and is distinguishable from Bst DNA polymerases isolated from other strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus.
- This prodedure of using HiFi Bst as the DNA polymerase in the classic radiolabeling Sanger reaction for DNA sequencing and its autoradiograph are illustrated in Example 8. The data obtained by adapting this procedure to use HiFi Bst as the DNA polymerase in dye-labeled primer automated fluorescent DNA sequencing are illustrated in Example 9. These results indicate that HiFi Bst DNA polymerase can be used for the classic Sanger manual sequencing and the fluorescent dye-labeled primer sequencing with high processivity and high fidelity.
- However, when the protocol was modified for fluorescent dye-labeled ddNTP terminator automated DNA sequencing, numerous “C” peaks and “A” peaks were missing or appeared ambiguous in the sequence plot, especially when the “C” peak was immediately after a “G” peak or after an “A” peak, and when the “A” peak was immediately after a “G” peak. This selective discrimination against incorporation of dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP is sequence-related since many “C” and “A” peaks following an immediate “C” peak or an immeciate “T” peak remained strong and correctly resolved in the same color plot of sequence analysis. (See Example 9) This phenomenon of selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP is observed with all DNA polymerases isolated from different strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Bacillus caldotenax, and appears to be characteristic of DNA polymerases of the mesophilic bacilli.
- The DNA fragment LF containing the gene initially isolated from the
wild Bst 320 has the following sequence (see SEQ ID NO:1): - DNA Sequence (Isolated/Purified):
GCCGAAGGGG AGAAACCGCT TGAGGAGATG GAGTTTGCCA TCGTTGACGT CATTACCGAA GAGATGCTTG CCGACAAGGC AGCGCTTGTC GTTGAGGTGA TGGAAGAAAA CTACCACGAT GCCCCGATTG TCGGAATCGC ACTAGTGAAC GAGCATGGGC GATTTTTTAT GCGCCCGGAG ACCGCGCTGG CTGATTCGCA ATTTTTAGCA TGGCTTGCCG ATGAAACGAA GAAAAAAAGC ATGTTTGACG CCAAGCGGGC AGTCGTTGCC TTAAAGTGGA AAGGAATTGA GCTTCGCGGC GTCGCCTTTG ATTTATTGCT CGCTGCCTAT TTGCTCAATC CGGCTCAAGA TGCCGGCGAT ATCGCTGCGG TGGCGAAAAT GAAACAATAT GAAGCGGTGC GGTCGGATGA AGCGGTCTAT GGCAAAGGCG TCAAGCGGTC GCTGCCGGAC GAACAGACGC TTGCTGAGCA TCTCGTTCGC AAAGCGGCAG CCATTTGGGC GCTTGAGCAG CCGTTTATGG ACGATTTGCG GAACAACGAA CAAGATCAAT TATTAACGAA GCTTGAGCAC GCGCTGGCGG CGATTTTGGC TGAAATGGAA TTCACTGGGG TGAACGTGGA TACAAAGCGG CTTGAACAGA TGGGTTCGGA GCTCGCCGAA CAACTGCGTG CCATCGAGCA GCGCATTTAC GAGCTAGCCG GCCAAGAGTT CAACATTAAC TCACCAAAAC AGCTCGGAGT CATTTTATTT GAAAAGCTGC AGCTACCGGT GCTGAAGAAG ACGAAAACAG GCTATTCGAC TTCGGCTGAT GTGCTTGAGA AGCTTGCGCC GCATCATGAA ATCGTCGAAA ACATTTTGCA TTACCGCCAG CTTGGCAAAC TGCAATCAAC GTATATTGAA GGATTGTTGA AAGTTGTGCG CCCTGATACC GGCAAAGTGC ATACGATGTT CAACCAAGCG CTGACGCAAA CTGGGCGGCT CAGCTCGGCC GAGCCGAACT TGCAAAACAT TCCGATTCGG CTCGAAGAGG GGCGGAAAAT CCGCCAAGCG TTCGTCCCGT CAGAGCCGGA CTGGCTCATT TTCGCCGCCG ATTACTCACA AATTGAATTG CGCGTCCTCG CCCATATCGC CGATGACGAC AATCTAATTG AAGCGTTCCA ACGCGATTTG GATATTCACA CAAAAACGGC GATGGACATT TTCCAGTTGA GCGAAGAGGA AGTCACGGCC AACATGCGCC GCCAGGCAAA GGCCGTTAAC TTCGGTATCG TTTACGGAAT TAGCGATTAC GGATTGGCGC AAAACTTGAA CATTACGCGC AAAGAAGCTG CCGAATTTAT CGAACGTTAC TTCGCCAGCT TTCCGGGCGT AAAGCAGTAT ATGGAAAACA TAGTGCAAGA AGCGAAACAG AAAGGATATG TGACAACGCT GTTGCATCGG CGCCGCTATT TGCCTGATAT TACAAGCCGC AATTTCAACG TCCGCAGTTT TGCAGAGCGG ACGGCCATGA ACACGCCAAT TCAAGGAAGC GCCGCTGACA TTATTAAAAA AGCGATGATT GATTTAGCGG CACGGCTGAA AGAAGAGCAG CTTCAGGCTC GTCTTTTGCT GCAAGTGCAT GACGAGCTCA TTTTGGAAGC GCCAAAAGAG GAAATTGAGC GATTATGTGA GCTTGTTCCG GAAGTGATGG AGCAGGCCGT TACGCTCCGC GTGCCGCTGA AAGTCGACTA CCATTACGGC CCAACATGGT ATGATGCCAA ATAA (1764 nucleotides total) - Site directed mutagenesis was performed as described by Kunkel et al. (14) The DNA fragment (designated “LF”) containing the gene for Bst DNA polymerase having proofreading exonuclease activity was cloned from the expression vector pYZ23/LF into plasmid pUC119. The constructed plasmid pUC119/LF was then transformed into E. coli CJ236, a mutant of E. coli that lacks the enzymes dUTPase and uracil N-glycosylase. Therefore, when grown in a medium supplemented with uridine, this mutant of E. coli as well as the plasmids in the cells will incorporate deoxyuridine into the DNA in place of thymidine and the uracils will not be removed readily.
- As the constructed plasmid grew in the cells of E. coli CJ236 and in the presence of uracil and M13K07 helper phage, the normal thymidine bases of the DNA in the newly produced single-stranded pUC119/LF were replaced by uracils. These uracil-containing DNAs were used as the template in vitro for the production of a complementary oligonucleotide that contained the desired DNA sequence alteration, but with only TMPs and not dUMP residues.
- In practice, the expression vector pYZ23/LF was digested with restriction enzymes Eco RI and Bam HI, and the DNA fragment LF was separated and cloned into plasmid pUC119 which had been previously digested with the same restriction enzymes. The constructed plasmid pUC119/LF was then transformed into E. coli CJ236. For gaining the uracil-containing single-stranded pUC119/LF, a colony of E. coli CJ236 containing pUC119/LF was selected and inoculated into 2 ml of 2×YT medium which was supplemented with 0.25 ug/ml of uridine and 2×108 to 4×108 pfu/ml of M13KO7 as helper phage. After incubation at 37° C. with strong agitation for 1 hour, a kanamycin solution (25 mg/ml in H2O) was added to the culture to a final concentration of 70 ug/ml. The incubation was allowed to continue for another 14-18 hours at 37° C. with strong agitation. Then 1.5 ml of the infected culture was transferred to a microcentrifuge tube, and centrifuged at 12,000×g for 5 minutes at 4° C. The uracil-containing single-stranded pUC119/LF was precipitated and purified from the supernatant according to standard PEG/NaCl and ethanol procedures.
- After performing a series of experiments, the inventors found that the combined effects of changing the amino acids leucine-glutamate-glutamate (LEE) at the location 342-344, to respectively threonine-proline-leucine (TPL), and the amino acid phenylalanine (F) at location 422, to tyrosine (Y) in the peptide structure of HiFi Bst DNA polymerase markedly reduced its selective discrimination against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP to such a level that direct automated fluorescent DNA sequence (although not cycle-sequencing) can be performed with the dye-terminator technology when the mutated enzyme of the current invention is used. It is of interest to note that this modified HiFi Bst, now referred to as HiFi Bst-II DNA polymerase, exhibits the function of preferentially incorporating more fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP onto the 3′ end dGMP and the DAMP bases of the extending DNA strands during enzymatic reaction, than the unmodified naturally occurring HiFI Bst polymerase.
- The end result is the recovery of the “C” and “A” peaks which otherwise would have been missing or ambiguous on the sequence analysis color plot. At the same time, the modified enzyme did not indiscriminately generate an excess amount of dye-labeled “G” terminated or dye-labeled “T” terminated DNA fragments. Even the “C” and “A” peaks were not uniformly raised in a blanket manner, but only raised in the formerly depressed locations after a “G” and/or an “A”. (See Example 9). Thus, this genetic modification of the HiFi Bst to HiFi Bst-II results in a DNA polymerase that reduces the selective discrimination against incorporation of the fluorescent dye-labeled ddCTP and dye-labeled ddATP, rather than merely increases the ability of the parent enzyme to incorporate these dye-labeled dideoxynucleotides.
- HiFi Bst-II, and the other novel similar DNA polymerases of this invention, can be used for the classic radiolabeling Sanger method. (See Example 8.) HiFi Bst-II appears to generate a better sequencing pattern than HiFi Bst and requires less ddNTPs to terminate the extending reaction (
FIG. 3 ). For instance, in the optimized reaction mixture for the unmodified HiFi Bst DNA polymerase, the ddNTP/dNTP ratios in the A, C, G and T mix were 40, 6.25, 18.25 and 18.72, respectively. In the optimized reaction mixture for the modified HiFi Bst-II DNA polymerase, the corresponding ddNTP/dNTP ratios in the A, C, G and T mix were 40, 2.5, 6.25 and 6.25, respectively. Therefore, there was an up-to about three-fold reduction in the amount of ddNTPs used after genetic modification of the naturally-occurring DNA polymerase. - For the radiolabeling classic Sanger method of DNA sequencing, the optimized reaction mixtures for either HiFi Bst or HiFi Bst-II must contain much more ddNTPs than dNTPs to generate a ladder of DNA fragments for sequencing analysis because the DNA polymerases of the mesophilic bacilli tend to incorporate dNTPs more efficiently than ddNTPs. The above-described genetic modification appears to increase the ability of the naturally-occurring enzymes to incorporate ddNTP in the presence of a corresponding competing dNTP to about three-fold at the concentration ratios commonly used for DNA sequencing. However, if much higher concentrations of the nucleotides were used for the experiment, and the ddNTP/dNTP ratio was reduced to a level that is suboptimal for DNA sequencing (for instance at a ratio of 1/3), the increased ability for incorporating ddNTPs after modification of the enzyme could be dramatized. (See Example 6,
FIG. 2 ). - Similar to the results obtained with radiolabeling Sanger method, both HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II can be adapted for fluorescent dye-labeled primer automated DNA sequencing and produce comparable results without selective suppression of any specific fluorescent peaks in the sequencing plot (see Example 9) although the peaks generated by HiFi Bst-II appear to be more even than those by HiFi Bst.
- To change amino acids leucine, glutamic acid and glutamic acid (LEE) at positions 342-344, respectively in the Bst polymerase into threonine, proline and leucine (TPL), respectively, Primer 1 was designed as following (see SEQ ID NO 10):
5′-CATTCCGATTCGGACCCCACTGGGGCGGAAAACCG-3 - To change amino acid phenylalanine (F) at position 422 in the Bst DNA polymerase into tyrosine (Y),
Primer 2 was designed as following (see SEQ ID NO: 9):5′-GCCGTTAACTACGGTATCGTTTACGG-3′ - After phosphorylation of the 5′ ends of the oligonucleotides by T4 polynucleotide kinase, the two primers designed above were annealed to the single-stranded uracil-containing pUC119/LF purified from above. In the presence of the usual dNTPs (dATP, dCTP, dGTP and dTTP), T4 DNA polymerase was used to synthesize in vitro the strands of DNA complementary to the uracil-containing pUC119/LF template, and T4 ligase was used to ligate the synthesized strands to form a complete double-stranded plasmid which was composed of one single-stranded, not mutagenic, uracil-containing pUC119/LF and one complementary single-stranded, mutagenic, thymidine-containing DNA fragment that had been altered by primer 1 and
primer 2 described above. These newly formed double-stranded plasmids were then transformed into E. coli JM109. The template strand was rendered biologically inactive. The transformed strain of E. coli JM109 whose plasmids contained the mutated DNA, now referred to as pUC119/LF-M, was screened out with DNA sequencing of its plasmids. - The plasmid pUC119/LF-M was prepared from the strain of Escherichia coli JM109 containing the mutated DNA. The mutated DNA fragment (LF-M) containing the mutated gene for the Bst polymerase was recombined back into the expression vector pYZ23. The constructed plasmid pYZ23/LF-M was then transformed into Escherichia coli JF1125. The mutation was further confirmed by double-stranded dideoxy DNA sequencing of isolated plasmid.
- The strain of Escherichia coli JF1125 containing pYZ23/LF-M was inoculated into LB culture containing 100 μg/ml ampicillin, and was incubated overnight at 30° C. The overnight culture was inoculated into a large volume of fresh culture, and was incubated at 30° C. until the OD600 of the culture reached 0.7. The culture was then heated at 41° C. for 3 hours for induction. The SDS-PAGE analysis of the cell extract showed that the cloned mutated gene for the modified Bst DNA polymerase was overexpressed.
- The expressed cells of Escherichia coli JF1125 containing pYZ23/LF-M grown in condition as described above were thawed and washed with buffer [10 mM Tris-HCl (pH7.5 at room temperature), 10 mM β-Mercaptoethanol, 2 mM EDTA, 0.9% NaCl]. The pellets were then suspended in buffer [50 mM Tris-HCl (pH7.5 at room temperature), 10 mM β-Mercaptoethanol, 2 mM EDTA, 100 μg/ml Lysozyme, 23 μg/ml PMSF](4 ml/g pellet). After 20 min at room temperature, the mixture was cooled on salt-ice and sonicated briefly to complete lysis. The cell extract obtained by centrifugation at 18,000 rpm at 4° C. for 20 minutes, was then treated step by step as follows:
- (A) The cell extract was heated at 60° C. for 30 minutes, and cooled to 4° C., then centrifuged at 15,000 rpm at 4° C. for 20 minutes;
- (B) 5% Polymin P was added into supernatant to 0.6%, and mixed quickly for 30 minutes, then centrifuged;
- (C) The pellet was resuspended in Buffer A [50 mM Tris-HCl (pH7.5 at room temperature), 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM β-Mercaptoethanol] containing 800 mM NaCl and 5% Glycerol at 4° C., and then centrifuged;
- (D) Ammonium sulfate was added into the supernatant to 60% saturation at 4° C., and mixed for 30 minutes, then centrifuged;
- (E) The ammonium sulfate pellet was resuspended in 30 ml of 60% saturated ammonium sulfate at 4° C., and then recentrifuged;
- (F) The pellet was suspended in Buffer A containing 100 mM KCl and dialysed against the same buffer for hours at 4° C., then centrifuged. The insoluble protein was discard;
- (G) The supernatant was added to pass through a DE-52 column. The column was washed, and the peak DNA polymerase was eluted using a 100-600 mM KCl linear gradient in Buffer A, concentrated in Buffer A containing 50%(w/v) PEG-6000, dialyzed in Buffer A containing 100 mM KCl;
- (H) The solution was then applied to Heparin-Sepharose CL-4B column. The peak DNA polymerase was eluted with a linear gradient of 100-800 mM KCl in Buffer A, concentrated and finally dialyzed in buffer A containg 50% glycerol.
- The resulting modified Bst DNA polymerase has been proved to be homogenous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. And the enzyme obtained was stored in −20° C.
- The DNA polymerases of Examples 1 and 5 were incubated at 65° C. for 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes respectively, and placed into ice-water immediately. The polymerase activity of these DNA polymerases was determined at 60° C.
- The polymerase activity of DNA polymerase was determined as follows:
- 5× Reaction Solution:
1M Tris-HCl (pH7.6) 16.75 ml 1M MgCl2 1.675 ml 1M β-Mercaptoethanol 0.25 ml ddH2O adjusted to 50 ml - Reaction Storage:
5 × Reaction Solution 60 μl dNTPs (1 mM each) 10 μl 1.5 μg/μl DNase I activated 10 μl calf thymus DNA ddH2O 10 μl α-32P-dATP appropriate amt. - Reaction Mixture:
Reaction Storage 30 μl Sample 5 μl ddH2O 65 μl - The reaction mixtures were prepared as per the recipe above, and incubated at 60° C. for 30 minutes. Then the reaction mixtures were pipetted onto DE-81 filters respectively. After all of the fluid has evaporated, the amount of radioactivity on each filter was measured with scintillation (X1). The filters were washed three times with 0.3M Na2HPO4 at room temperature, 10 minutes each times, dried at room temperature and then the amount of radioactivity on each filter was measured again (X2).
- The polymerase activity of sample
(X10 and X20 are the amount of radioactivity measured with water as control sample) - Unit definition of polymerase activity: One unit is the amount of DNA polymerase required to incorporate 10 nanomoles of dNTPs into DNA in 30 minutes at 60° C.
- The thermostability of DNA polymerase is expressed with the half life of polymerase activity at 65° C.
FIG. 1 shows the comparison of thermostabilty of HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II. The half life of HiFi Bst at 65° C. was 8.5 minutes, and that of HiFi Bst-II was 16 minutes. HiFi Bst-II was more thermostable than HiFi Bst. - The following procedure was followed:
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- 1. The −20M13 forward primer was radiolabelled using γ-32P-ATP and T4 Polynucleotide kinase;
- 2. The following components were combined in a microcentrifuge tube:
5 × Reaction Buffer 2.0 μl radiolabeled primer 1.0 μl (2.5 ng) Template 7.0 μl (1 μg Ml3mp18 ssDNA) -
- The final volume was 10 μl. The contents were mixed and spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 3. The tube were placed in a 75° C. water bath for 5 minutes. Then the tube was allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over a course of 10 minutes;
- 4. 1.0 μl of modified Bst DNA polymerase (of Example 5) (1 u/μl) was added. The mixture was mixed gently and spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 5. 4 tubes were labelled “A”, “C”, “G”, “T”, respectively and 2 μl of each premixed nucleotide solution and 2.5 μl of main mixture (from step 3) was added to the respective reaction tube;
- 6. The tubes were incubated at 65° C. for 15 minutes;
- 7. The reactions were stopped by adding 4.0 μl of Stop Solution (95% deionized formamide, 10 mM EDTA, 0.05% xylene cyanol FF, 0.05% bromophenol blue) to each tube;
- 8. The samples were denatured at 90° C. for 2 minutes, and immediately placed on ice;
- 9. 4-5 μl of samples were loaded onto each lane of 6% (8M urea) sequencing gel, and electrophoresis was carried out.
Note: The Components of the Premixed Nucleotide Solutions: - A mix:
dNTPs 120 μM,ddATP 40 μM - C mix:
dNTPs 120 μM,ddCTP 40 μM - G mix:
dNTPs 120 μM,ddGTP 40 μM - T mix:
dNTPs 120 μM,ddTTP 40 μM
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FIG. 2 shows the comparison of ddNTP incorporation of HiFi Bst-II DNA polymerase and HiFi Bst DNA polymerase. In this radiolabeling DNA sequencing experiment, high concentrations of nucleotides were used in the reaction mixture and the ddNTP/dNTP ratio was reduced to a level (1/3) that is lower than the optimal range for DNA sequencing. HiFi Bst-II is shown to have more effective ddNTP incorporation. The DNA synthesis was often terminated by ddNTP incorporation in the HiFi Bst-II mixture, and the result showed uniform bands with synthesized small or large DNA fragments. As a contrast, HiFi Bst had a lower ddNTP incorporation. The DNA synthesis by HiFi Bst was less terminated, and most of the synthesized products were the larger DNA fragments. - The following procedure was carried out.
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- 1. Double-stranded DNA (about 3-5 μg) was adjusted to a final volume of 10 μl with TE (10 mM Tris-HCl, 1 mM EDTA, pH8.0);
- 2. 10 μl of 0.4N NaOH, 0.4 mM EDTA, was added;
- 3. The mixture was incubated at 65° C. for 15 minutes;
- 4. 2 μl of 2M sodium acetate, pH4.5, and 55 μl cold ethanol was added, and the mixture was placed in ice-water bath for 5 minutes;
- 5. The mixture was spun in a microcentrifuge at 4° C., 12500 rpm for 5 minutes;
- 6. The supernatant was drawn off and the pellet was washed with 200 μl of 70% ethanol;
- 7. The pellet was dried under vacuum for 2-3 minutes, and the DNA was dissolved in appropriate solution.
- The following procedure was carried out.
- 1. The following components were combined in a labeled microcentrifuge tube:
5 × Reaction Buffer 2.0 μl Primer 1.0 μl (2.5-5.0 ng) Template 7.0 μl (250-500 ng ss DNA or 1-3 μg denatured ds DNA)
The final volume was 10 μl. The contents were mixed and spun for 2-3 seconds; -
- 2. The tube were placed in a 75° C. water bath for 5 minutes. Then the tubes were allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over a course of 10 minutes;
(Note:Step 2 is optional for single-stranded template, and may be omitted at appropriate.) - 3. 1.0 μl of HiFi Bst/HiFi Bst-II (1 u/μl) and 1.0 μl of [α-32P]dATP was added, and the mixture was mixed gently and spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 4. 4 tubes “A”, “C”, “G”, “T” were labelled, and 2 μl of each premixed nucleotide solution and 2.5 μl of main mixture (from step 3) was added to the respective reaction tube;
- 5. The tubes were incubated at 65° C. for 2 minutes;
- 6. 2.0 μl of 0.5 mM dNTPs was added to each tube, and the tubes were mixed gently, spun for 2-3 seconds, and incubated at 65° C. for 2 minutes;
- 7. The reactions were stopped by adding 4.01 of Stop Solution (95% deionized formamide, 10 mM EDTA, 0.05% xylene cyanol FF, 0.05% bromophenol blue) to each tube;
- 8. The samples were denatured at 90° C. for 2 minutes, and immediately placed on ice;
- 9. 2-3 μl of the samples were loaded onto each lane of 6% (8M urea) sequencing gel, and electrophoresis was carried out.
Note: The Components of the Premixed Nucleotide Solutions for HiFi Bst: - A mix: dATP 0.62 μM, dCTP 62 μM, dGTP 62 μM, dTTP 62 μM, ddATP 25 μM;
- C mix: dATP 0.8 μM, dCTP 8 μM,
dGTP 80 μM,dTTP 80 μM,ddCTP 50 μM; - G mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM, dGTP 4 μM,dTTP 80 μM, ddGTP 75 μM; - T mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM,dGTP 80 μM, dTTP 8 μM,ddTTP 150 μM.
- 2. The tube were placed in a 75° C. water bath for 5 minutes. Then the tubes were allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over a course of 10 minutes;
- The Components of the Premixed Nucleotide Solutions for HiFi Bst-II:
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- A mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM,dGTP 80 μM,dTTP 80 μM, ddATP 25 μM; - C mix: dATP 0.8 μM, dCTP 8 μM,
dGTP 80 μM,dTTP 80 μM,ddCTP 20 μM; - G mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM, dGTP 8 μM,dTTP 80 μM,ddGTP 50 μM; - T mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
dCTP 80 μM,dGTP 80 μM, dTTP 8 μM,ddTTP 50 μM.
- A mix: dATP 0.8 μM,
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FIG. 3 shows the comparison of radiolabeled DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II in their respective optimized reaction mixtures. The bands on a DNA sequencing gel with HiFi Bst-II were more uniform than those with HiFi Bst. The sequence pattern using HiFi Bst-II was better than that using HiFi Bst. This made the gel with HiFi Bst-II even easier to read. Moreover, the ratio of dideoxy-nucleotide concentration to deoxy-nucleotide concentration in Premixed Nucleotide Solutions for HiFi Bst-II was lower than that for HiFi Bst. For instance, the ddATP/dATP, ddCTP/dCTP, ddGTP/dGTP and ddTTP/dTTP ratios were 40, 6.25, 18.75 and 18.75, respectively, for HiFi Bst. The corresponding ratios for HiFi Bst-II were 40, 2.5, 6.25 and 6.25, respectively. Therefore, the concentrations of ddNTPs used in the termination reaction are reduced to about three-folds after HiFi Bst has been genetically modified. - The following procedure was carried out.
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- 1. The following was combined: 4.0 μl DNA template (300-600 ng for ssDNA or 1-2 μg denatured ds DNA) with 5.0 μl 5× Reaction Buffer. The mixture was mixed and spun for 2-3 seconds in a microcentrifuge;
- 2. 4 tubes were labeled “A”, “C”, “G”, “T” and the pre-mixed dATP, dCTP, dGTP, dTTP reagents were added to each reaction tube:
Reaction tube A C G T A-REG primer (0.2 uM) 1.0 ul C-FAM primer (0.2 uM) 1.0 ul G-TMR primer (0.4 uM) 1.0 ul T-ROX primer (0.4 uM) 1.0 ul A terminator mix 2.0 ul C terminator mix 2.0 ul G terminator mix 2.0 ul T terminator mix 2.0 ul 5 × Reaction buffer 2.0 ul 2.0 ul 2.0 ul 2.0 ul with DNA template Total volume 5.0 ul 5.0 ul 5.0 ul 5.0 ul -
- 3. The tubes were placed in 75° C. bath for 5 minutes, and allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over the course of 10 minutes;
(Note: Step 3 is optional for single-stranded template, and may be omitted as appropriate.) - 4. 1 μl of HiFi Bst/HiFi Bst-II (0.5 u/μl) was added to each tube, and the tubes were spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 5. The tubes were incubated at 65° C. for 5 minutes;
- 6. The contents of the “A”, “C”, “G” and “T” tubes were pooled, and 1.5 μl of 7.5M ammonium acetate and 55 μl of ethanol was added. The mixtured was mixed in a vortex and then placed on ice for 20 minutes;
- 7. The mixture was centrifuged at 12,500 rpm for 20 minutes at 4° C.;
- 8. The supernatant was drawn off, and the pellet was washed with 200 μl of 70% ethanol;
- 9. The pellet was vacuum dried for 2-3 minutes, and resuspended in 4 μl of loading buffer (5:1 deionized formamide:25 mM EDTA with 50 mg/ml Blue Dextran);
- 10. The sample was heated at 75° C. for 2-3 minutes, and immediately placed on ice;
- 11. 2-3 μl of sample was loaded onto a lane of the 4% (6 M urea) sequencing gel, and ABI PRISM™ 377 DNA Sequencer (from Perkin Elmer) was used to collect data.
- 3. The tubes were placed in 75° C. bath for 5 minutes, and allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over the course of 10 minutes;
- Note: Dye primer: DYEnamic Energy Transfer Dye Primers (from Amersham):
−21 M13 forward: 5′-FAM-STSSSSSTGT*AAAACGACGGCC (SEQ ID NO: 11) AGT-3′ - TS=1′2′-dideoxyribose
- T*=T attached with Dye 2 (A-REG, C-FAM, G-TMR, T-ROX)
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FIG. 4 andFIG. 5 show the results of dye-primer DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II. Both DNA polymerases generated similar sequencing results although the peaks on the color plot by HiFi Bst II appear to be more even in height. - The following procedure was carried out.
- 1. The following components were combined in a labeled microcentrifuge tube:
5 × Reaction Buffer 4.0 μl Template 8.0 μl (2-3 μg ss DNA or 4-6 μg denatured ds DNA) Primer 2.0 μl (5-10 ng) -
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- The final volume was 14 μl. The contents were mixed and spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 2. The tube was placed in a 75° C. water bath for 5 minutes;
- 3. The tube was allowed to cool slowly to ambient temperature over a course of 10 minutes; (Note:
Steps 2 and 3 are optional for single-stranded template, and may be omitted as appropriate.) - 4. 1.0 μl of HiFi Bst/HiFi Bst-II (1-2 u/μl), 5 μl of nucleotides premix (containing Perkin Elmer-ABI fluorescent dye-labeled nucleotide terminators), were added and the tube was spun for 2-3 seconds;
- 5. The mixture was incubated at 65° C. for 10 minutes;
- 6. 80 μl of H2O was added to the reaction mix, and the dye terminators were extracted with 1001 of phenol:H2O:chloroform (68:18:14) reagent twice. The sample was vortexed and centrifuged, and the aqueous upper layer was transferred to a clean tube;
- 7. To the tube was added 15 μl of 2M sodium acetate, pH 4.5, and 300 μl of ethanol, and the tube was vortexed and placed in ice-water bath for 20 minutes;
- 8. The tube was centrifuged with 12,500 rpm for 20 minutes at 4° C.;
- 9. The supernatant was drawn off, and the pellet was washed with 200 μl of 70% ethanol;
- 10. The pellet was vacuum dried for 2-3 minutes, and resuspended in 4 μl of loading buffer (5:1 deionized formamide:25 mM EDTA with 50 mg/ml Blue Dextran);
- 11. The sampled was heated at 90° C. for 2-3 minutes, and immediately placed on ice;
- 12. 2-3 μl of sample was loaded onto a lane of the 4% (6M urea) sequencing gel, and ABI PRISM™ 377 DNA Sequencer (from Perkin Elmer) was employed to collect data, using appropriate amounts of nucleotide pre-mixed reagents.
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FIG. 6 andFIG. 7 show the results of dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst and HiFi Bst-II. There was data lost in dye-terminator DNA sequencing with HiFi Bst, especially the “C” after “G” or “A” and “A” after “G”. InFIG. 8 , corrections of the missing or ambiguous bases, according to the known pGEM sequence, have been indicated below the letters “N” or below the incorrect base letters. This problem caused ambiguity in DNA sequencing. But it was resolved in dye-terminator DNA sequencing with the modified Bst DNA polymerase of this invention. -
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Claims (7)
1-23. (canceled)
24. A method for producing a modified form of a DNA polymerase which during DNA sequencing selectively discriminates against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP but does not discriminate against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddTTP and ddGTP, comprising the step of
modifying a DNA polymerase which has an amino acid sequence that shares not less than 95% homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus, so that the modified DNA polymerase includes threonine, praline and leucine at positions 342-344, respectively, and tyrosine at position 422.
25. The method according to claim 24 , wherein the DNA polymerase has proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease activity during DNA sequencing of a DNA strand from a template, such that the DNA polymerase functions to excise mismatched nucleotides from the 3′ terminus of the DNA strand at a faster rate than the rate at which the DNA polymerase functions to remove nucleotides matched correctly with nucleotides of the template.
26. The method according to claim 24 , wherein the DNA polymerase has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4.
27. The method according to claim 24 , wherein the DNA polymerase is encoded by a DNA segment having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:3.
28. A method for producing a modified form of a DNA polymerase which during DNA sequencing selectively discriminates against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddCTP and ddATP but does not discriminate against incorporation of fluorescent dye-labeled dideoxynucleotide terminators ddTTP and ddGTP, comprising the step of
modifying a nucleotide sequence encoding a DNA polymerase which has an amino acid sequence that shares not less than 95% homology of a DNA polymerase isolated from a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus caldotenax or Bacillus caldolyticus, so that the modified nucleotide sequence encodes threonine, praline and leucine at positions 342-344, respectively, and tyrosine at position 422.
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