Figure 2
Monovalent cation-dependence of the DNA strand-exchange activity of MmRadA. The strand reaction scheme is shown in (a). The reaction solutions contained 2 mM of a specified nucleotide, 100 mM of a specified monovalent salt, 10 mM MgCl2 and 50 mM HEPES–Tris buffer pH 7.4. The solutions also contained 15 µM MmRadA and 1 µM each of ssDNA (FAM-labelled) and dsDNA (unlabelled) substrates. Strand-exchange activity was indicated by the formation of the slowest migrating heteroduplex DNA species (FAM-labelled hdDNA). The intrinsic fluorescence from the FAM label was recorded as shown in (b) and (c). |