Abstract
Three distinct DNA polymerase fractions (A, B and C), were isolated from Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote forms. Fraction A is a low molecular mass enzyme corresponding to β-like DNA polymerase of T. cruzi. Fraction B co-purified along several purification steps with fraction A, but in the last step it was clearly separated by a phosphocellulose chromatography. Fraction C was separated from fractions A and B by binding to DEAE-cellulose column, since the other two fractions were eluted in the flowthrough. This enzyme has an apparent native molecular mass of 100 kDa and showed a high preference for poly(dC)-oligo(dG) among different template-primers tested as substrate. Western-blot and biochemical analysis strongly suggest that the three DNA polymerase fractions correspond to different molecular entities. These results are in agreement with the idea that fraction C is a new DNA polymerase of T. cruzi, not described before.
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