Abstract
Two forms of topoisomerase I can be purified from Xenopus laevis. A protein with a molecular mass of 165 kDa has been identified as topoisomerase I in ovaries ( Richard and Bogenhagen, 1989. J. Biol. Chem. 264, 4704–4709 ). When a similar purification is performed using liver tissue, topoisomerase I is purified as a 110-kDa protein. Separate rabbit antisera were raised against oocyte and liver topoisomerase I polypeptides. Each antiserum reacts in immunoblotting or immunoprecipitation procedures only with the tissue-specific topoisomerase I polypeptide against which it was generated. The failure of the antiserum raised against liver topoisomerase I to cross-react with the oocyte enzyme suggests that the smaller topoisomerase I is not derived from the 165-kDa oocyte enzyme by proteolysis. X. laevis tissue culture cells lysed and processed in the presence of SDS contain the 110-kDa form of topoisomerase I. The 165-kDa form of topoisomerase I disappears during oocyte maturation in vitro.
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