Abstract
The EcoRV restriction endonuclease normally shows a high specificity for its recognition site on DNA, GATATC. In standard reactions, it cleaves DNA at this site several orders of magnitude more readily than at any alternative sequence. But in the presence of dimethyl sulphoxide and at high pH, the EcoRV enzyme cleaves DNA at several sites that differ from its recognition site by one nucleotide. Of the 18 (3 X 6) possible sequences that differ from GATATC by one base, all were cleaved readily except for the following 4 sites: T ATATC, C ATATC, GATAT A and GATAT G . However, two of the sites that could be cleaved by EcoRV in the presence of dimethyl sulphoxide, GA G ATC and GAT C TC, were only cleaved on DNA that lacked dam methylation: both contain the sequence GATC, the recognition site for the dam methylase of Escherichia coli.
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