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The enzyme kinetic studies with endonucleases specific for single-stranded DNA and the thermal denaturation analyses of DNA showed that a high mobility group (HMG) nonhistone protein fraction HMG (1 + 2), composed of HMG1 and HMG2, has an activity to unwind DNA partially at low protein-to-DNA weight ratio. Isolated HMG1 and HMG2 have the same activity. Divalent cations such as Mg++ or Ca++ were necessary for the unwinding reaction. A peptide containing high glutamic and aspartic (HGA) region, isolated from the tryptic digest of HMG (1 + 2), unwound DNA depending on the presence of Mg++ or Ca++, suggesting that the HMA region in HMG protein is the active site for the DNA unwinding reaction. Poly-L-glutamic acid, employed as a model peptide of the HGA region, showed the activity. Finally, mechanisms of the DNA unwinding reaction by the HMG protein and possible role of the divalent cations are discussed.
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