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Kadyrova LY, Rodriges Blanko E, Kadyrov FA. Human CAF-1-dependent nucleosome assembly in a defined system. Cell Cycle 2013; 12:3286-97. [PMID: 24036545 PMCID: PMC3885639 DOI: 10.4161/cc.26310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Replication-coupled nucleosome assembly is a critical step in packaging newly synthesized DNA into chromatin. Previous studies have defined the importance of the histone chaperones CAF-1 and ASF1A, the replicative clamp PCNA, and the clamp loader RFC for the assembly of nucleosomes during DNA replication. Despite significant progress in the field, replication-coupled nucleosome assembly is not well understood. One of the complications in elucidating the mechanisms of replication-coupled nucleosome assembly is the lack of a defined system that faithfully recapitulates this important biological process in vitro. We describe here a defined system that assembles nucleosomal arrays in a manner dependent on the presence of CAF-1, ASF1A-H3-H4, H2A-H2B, PCNA, RFC, NAP1L1, ATP, and strand breaks. The loss of CAF-1 p48 subunit causes a strong defect in packaging DNA into nucleosomes by this system. We also show that the defined system forms nucleosomes on nascent DNA synthesized by the replicative polymerase δ. Thus, the developed system reproduces several key features of replication-coupled nucleosome assembly.
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- Lyudmila Y Kadyrova
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Southern Illinois University School of Medicine; Carbondale, IL USA
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Degtyareva N, Subramanian D, Griffith JD. Analysis of the binding of p53 to DNAs containing mismatched and bulged bases. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:8778-84. [PMID: 11124254 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006795200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The tumor suppressor protein p53 modulates cellular response to DNA damage by a variety of mechanisms that may include direct recognition of some forms of primary DNA damage. Linear 49-base pair duplex DNAs were constructed containing all possible single-base mismatches as well as a 3-cytosine bulge. Filter binding and gel retardation assays revealed that the affinity of p53 for a number of these lesions was equal to or greater than that of the human mismatch repair complex, hMSH2-hMSH6, under the same binding conditions. However, other mismatches including G/T, which is bound strongly by hMSH2-hMSH6, were poorly recognized by p53. The general order of affinity of p53 was greatest for a 3-cytosine bulge followed by A/G and C/C mismatches, then C/T and G/T mismatches, and finally all the other mismatches.
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- N Degtyareva
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7295, USA
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Blackwell LJ, Martik D, Bjornson KP, Bjornson ES, Modrich P. Nucleotide-promoted release of hMutSalpha from heteroduplex DNA is consistent with an ATP-dependent translocation mechanism. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32055-62. [PMID: 9822680 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.48.32055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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ATP hydrolysis by bacterial and eukaryotic MutS activities is required for their function in mismatch correction, and two different models for the role of ATP in MutS function have been proposed. In the translocation model, based on study of bacterial MutS, ATP binding reduces affinity of the protein for a mismatch and activates secondary DNA binding sites that are subsequently used for movement of the protein along the helix contour in a reaction dependent on nucleotide hydrolysis (Allen, D. J., Makhov, A., Grilley, M., Taylor, J., Thresher, R., Modrich, P., and Griffith, J. D. (1997) EMBO J. 16, 4467-4476). The molecular switch model, based on study of human MutSalpha, invokes mismatch recognition by the MutSalpha.ADP complex. After recruitment of downstream repair activities to the MutSalpha.mismatch complex, ATP binding results in release of MutSalpha from the heteroduplex (Gradia, S., Acharya, S., and Fishel, R.(1997) Cell 91, 995-1005). To further clarify the function of ATP binding and hydrolysis in human MutSalpha action, we evaluated the effects of ATP, ADP, and nonhydrolyzable ATP analogs on the lifetime of protein.DNA complexes. All of these nucleotides were found to increase the rate of dissociation of MutSalpha from oligonucleotide heteroduplexes. These experiments also showed that ADP is not required for mismatch recognition by MutSalpha, but that the nucleotide alters the dynamics of formation and dissociation of specific complexes. Analysis of the mechanism of ATP-promoted dissociation of MutSalpha from a 200-base pair heteroduplex demonstrated that dissociation occurs at DNA ends in a reaction dependent on ATP hydrolysis, implying that release from this molecule involves movement of the protein along the helix contour as predicted for a translocation mechanism. In order to reconcile the relatively large rate of movement of MutS homologs along the helix with their modest rate of ATP hydrolysis, we propose a novel mechanism for protein translocation along DNA that supports directional movement over long distances with minimal energy input.
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- L J Blackwell
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Michaelson JS, Ermakova O, Birshtein BK, Ashouian N, Chevillard C, Riblet R, Schildkraut CL. Regulation of the replication of the murine immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus: evaluation of the role of the 3' regulatory region. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:6167-74. [PMID: 9315677 PMCID: PMC232467 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.10.6167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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DNA replication in mammalian cells is a precisely controlled physical and temporal process, likely involving cis-acting elements that control the region(s) from which replication initiates. In B cells, previous studies showed replication timing to be early throughout the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus. The implication from replication timing studies in the B-cell line MPC11 was that early replication of the Igh locus was regulated by sequences downstream of the C alpha gene. A potential candidate for these replication control sequences was the 3' regulatory region of the Igh locus. Our results demonstrate, however, that the Igh locus maintains early replication in a B-cell line in which the 3' regulatory region has been deleted from one allele, thus indicating that replication timing of the locus is independent of this region. In non-B cells (murine erythroleukemia cells [MEL]), previous studies of segments within the mouse Igh locus demonstrated that DNA replication likely initiated downstream of the Igh gene cluster. Here we use recently cloned DNA to demonstrate that segments located sequentially downstream of the Igh 3' regulatory region continue to replicate progressively earlier in S phase in MEL. Furthermore, analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis indicates that replication forks proceed exclusively in the 3'-to-5' direction through the region 3' of the Igh locus. Extrapolation from these data predicts that initiation of DNA replication occurs in MEL at one or more sites within a 90-kb interval located between 40 and 130 kb downstream of the 3' regulatory region.
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- J S Michaelson
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Gilbert DM, Miyazawa H, DePamphilis ML. Site-specific initiation of DNA replication in Xenopus egg extract requires nuclear structure. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:2942-54. [PMID: 7760792 PMCID: PMC230525 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.6.2942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Previous studies have shown that Xenopus egg extract can initiate DNA replication in purified DNA molecules once the DNA is organized into a pseudonucleus. DNA replication under these conditions is independent of DNA sequence and begins at many sites distributed randomly throughout the molecules. In contrast, DNA replication in the chromosomes of cultured animal cells initiates at specific, heritable sites. Here we show that Xenopus egg extract can initiate DNA replication at specific sites in mammalian chromosomes, but only when the DNA is presented in the form of an intact nucleus. Initiation of DNA synthesis in nuclei isolated from G1-phase Chinese hamster ovary cells was distinguished from continuation of DNA synthesis at preformed replication forks in S-phase nuclei by a delay that preceded DNA synthesis, a dependence on soluble Xenopus egg factors, sensitivity to a protein kinase inhibitor, and complete labeling of nascent DNA chains. Initiation sites for DNA replication were mapped downstream of the amplified dihydrofolate reductase gene region by hybridizing newly replicated DNA to unique probes and by hybridizing Okazaki fragments to the two individual strands of unique probes. When G1-phase nuclei were prepared by methods that preserved the integrity of the nuclear membrane, Xenopus egg extract initiated replication specifically at or near the origin of bidirectional replication utilized by hamster cells (dihydrofolate reductase ori-beta). However, when nuclei were prepared by methods that altered nuclear morphology and damaged the nuclear membrane, preference for initiation at ori-beta was significantly reduced or eliminated. Furthermore, site-specific initiation was not observed with bare DNA substrates, and Xenopus eggs or egg extracts replicated prokaryotic DNA or hamster DNA that did not contain a replication origin as efficiently as hamster DNA containing ori-beta. We conclude that initiation sites for DNA replication in mammalian cells are established prior to S phase by some component of nuclear structure and that these sites can be activated by soluble factors in Xenopus eggs.
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- D M Gilbert
- Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, Nutley, New Jersey 07110-1199, USA
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Auborn KJ, Little RD, Platt TH, Vaccariello MA, Schildkraut CL. Replicative intermediates of human papillomavirus type 11 in laryngeal papillomas: site of replication initiation and direction of replication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:7340-4. [PMID: 8041792 PMCID: PMC44395 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.15.7340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have examined the structures of replication intermediates from the human papillomavirus type 11 genome in DNA extracted from papilloma lesions (laryngeal papillomas). The sites of replication initiation and termination utilized in vivo were mapped by using neutral/neutral and neutral/alkaline two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis methods. Initiation of replication was detected in or very close to the upstream regulatory region (URR; the noncoding, regulatory sequences upstream of the open reading frames in the papillomavirus genome). We also show that replication forks proceed bidirectionally from the origin and converge 180 degrees opposite the URR. These results demonstrate the feasibility of analysis of replication of viral genomes directly from infected tissue.
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- K J Auborn
- Department of Otolaryngology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
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Han Z, Stachow C. Analysis of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mitochondrial DNA replication by two dimensional gel electrophoresis. Chromosoma 1994; 103:162-70. [PMID: 7924618 DOI: 10.1007/bf00368008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The entire mitochondrial genome of Schizosaccharomyces pombe ura4-294h- was analyzed by the 2D pulsed field gel electrophoresis technique developed by Brewer and Fangman. The genome consists of multimers with an average size of 100 kb and analysis of the overlapping restriction fragments of the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome resulted in simple Y 2D gel patterns. Large single-stranded DNA molecules or double-stranded DNA molecules containing large or numerous single-stranded regions were found in the S. pombe mtDNA preparation. The replication of mtDNA monomers was found to occur in either direction. On the basis of these results, a replication mechanism for S. pombe mtDNA that is most consistent with a rolling circle model is suggested.
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MESH Headings
- DNA Replication/physiology
- DNA, Fungal/analysis
- DNA, Fungal/biosynthesis
- DNA, Fungal/chemistry
- DNA, Mitochondrial/analysis
- DNA, Mitochondrial/biosynthesis
- DNA, Mitochondrial/chemistry
- DNA, Single-Stranded/analysis
- DNA, Single-Stranded/chemistry
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Models, Genetic
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Restriction Mapping
- Schizosaccharomyces/genetics
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- Z Han
- Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
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Knobler RM, Schneider S, Radlwimmer B, Bodemer W, Gebhart W, Söltz-Szöts J. Human papillomavirus in cervix carcinoma and condylomata acuminata--identification of HPV-DNA by improved dot-blot-hybridization. Clin Exp Dermatol 1992; 17:392-6. [PMID: 1336719 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1992.tb00245.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Using the benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE cellulose method (BND-method) we have designed a more efficient approach for the detection of human papillomavirus-DNA (HPV-DNA) via dot-blot and hybridization. Biopsy material from anogenital warts (40 patients), invasive carcinoma uteri (12 patients) and normal controls (20 patients) were studied for the presence of HPV-DNA. Phenol extracted DNA from representative lesions was loaded onto a pretreated nitrocellulose filter, was incubated under stringent conditions with 32-P-dCTP labelled HPV-DNA and exposed to a Kodak X-OMAT film. DNA of HPV types 11, 16, 18 were cloned into plasmid vectors. The common, time-consuming caesium-chloride density-gradient centrifugation used for purification of plasmid DNA (20-36 h), was substituted by the BND-method (15 min). Complete HPV genomes were excised using the restriction endonucleases Eco RI and Bam HI. The HPV-DNA fragments obtained were then electroeluted using the 'Bio-Trap' method and subsequently labelled with 32P-dCTP by nick translation. Without resorting to more complex and sensitive technology, such as the polymerase chain reaction, efficiency of specific analysis of large numbers of cervical samples and condylomata was achieved without loss of accuracy or increased costs. The time required for HPV identification from biopsy or sample receipt was shortened considerably (approximately 50%).
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- R M Knobler
- Second Department of Dermatology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Vaughn JP, Dijkwel PA, Mullenders LH, Hamlin JL. Replication forks are associated with the nuclear matrix. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:1965-9. [PMID: 2336385 PMCID: PMC330669 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.8.1965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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It has been proposed that DNA in eukaryotic cells is synthesized via replication complexes that are fixed to a proteinaceous nuclear matrix. This model has not been universally accepted because the matrix and its associated DNA are usually prepared under hypertonic conditions that could facilitate non-specific aggregation of macromolecules. We therefore investigated whether different ionic conditions can significantly affect the association of nascent DNA with the nuclear matrix in cultured mammalian cells. Matrices were prepared either by a high salt method or by hypotonic or isotonic LIS extraction. Chromosomal DNA was subsequently removed by digestion with either DNAse I or EcoRI. With all methods of preparation, we found that newly synthesized DNA preferentially partitioned with the nuclear matrix. Furthermore, when the matrix-attached DNA fraction was analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, we found that it was markedly enriched for replication forks. We therefore conclude that attachment of DNA to the matrix in the vicinity of replication forks is not induced by conditions of high ionic strength, and that replication may, indeed, occur on or near the skeletal framework provided by the nuclear matrix. From a practical standpoint, our findings suggest a strategy for greatly increasing the sensitivity of two important new gel electrophoretic methods for the direct mapping of replication fork movement through defined chromosomal domains in mammalian cells.
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- J P Vaughn
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908
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Schaaper RM, Radman M. The extreme mutator effect of Escherichia coli mutD5 results from saturation of mismatch repair by excessive DNA replication errors. EMBO J 1989; 8:3511-6. [PMID: 2555167 PMCID: PMC401508 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1989.tb08516.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli mutator mutD5 is the most potent mutator known. The mutD5 mutation resides in the dnaQ gene encoding the proofreading exonuclease of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. It has recently been shown that the extreme mutability of this strain results, in addition to a proofreading defect, from a defect in mutH, L, S-encoded postreplicational DNA mismatch repair. The following measurements of the mismatch-repair capacity of mutD5 cells demonstrate that this mismatch-repair defect is not structural, but transient. mutD5 cells in early log phase are as deficient in mismatch repair as mutL cells, but they become as proficient as wild-type cells in late log phase. Second, arrest of chromosomal replication in a mutD5-dnaA(Ts) strain at a nonpermissive temperature restores mismatch repair, even from the early log phase of growth. Third, transformation of mutD5 strains with multicopy plasmids expressing the mutH or mutL gene restores mismatch repair, even in rapidly growing cells. These observations suggest that the mismatch-repair deficiency of mutD strains results from a saturation of the mutHLS-mismatch-repair system by an excess of primary DNA replication errors due to the proofreading defect.
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- R M Schaaper
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Knobler RM, Schneider S, Neumann RA, Bodemer W, Radlwimmer B, Aberer E, Söltz-Szöts J, Gebhart W. DNA dot-blot hybridization implicates human papillomavirus type 11-DNA in epithelioma cuniculatum. J Med Virol 1989; 29:33-7. [PMID: 2555444 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890290107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Epithelioma cuniculatum is a rare, low-grade squamous cell carcinoma, belonging to the group of verrucous carcinomas. Evidence is presented that suggests that human papilloma virus type-11 may be involved in the pathogenesis of epithelioma cuniculatum. HPV-DNA was detected by dot-blot hybridization with 32P-labelled probe DNA. Plasmids containing HPV-DNA were isolated by the benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE cellulose method (BND-method), an improved procedure for routine detection of HPV-DNA.
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- R M Knobler
- Department of Dermatology II, University of Vienna, Austria
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Piette J, Gamper HB, van de Vorst A, Hearst JE. Mutagenesis induced by site specifically placed 4'-hydroxymethyl-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen adducts. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:9961-77. [PMID: 3057451 PMCID: PMC338830 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.21.9961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Closed circular double stranded M13mp19 DNA containing a site-specifically placed HMT (4'-hydroxymethyl-4-5'-8-trimethylpsoralen) monoadduct or crosslink was synthesized in vitro. The damaged DNA were scored for loss of infectivity by transfection into repair proficient or deficient E. coli and into SOS induced E. coli. Mutant phages were detected by the loss of alpha-complementation between the viral and the host Lac Z genes or by the acquisition of resistance to kpn I digestion. Our results indicate that HMT mutagenesis is targeted and that deletion or transversion of the modified thymidine is the predominant sequence change elicited by a monoadduct or a crosslink. Transfection of the monoadducted DNA into a Uvr A deficient strain did not change the mutation pattern but did increase the respective mutation frequencies. Transfection of the crosslinked DNA into a SOS induced host resulted in the appearence of other types of mutations attributable to an increase in both targeted and untargeted mutations.
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- J Piette
- Laboratory of Experimental Physics, University of Liège, Belgium
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Gamper HB, Cimino GD, Hearst JE. Solution hybridization of crosslinkable DNA oligonucleotides to bacteriophage M13 DNA. Effect of secondary structure on hybridization kinetics and equilibria. J Mol Biol 1987; 197:349-62. [PMID: 3316669 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90128-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Several DNA oligonucleotides have been photochemically modified with the furocoumarin 4'-hydroxymethyl-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (HMT) such that each contained a single HMT furan side monoadduct to thymidine at a unique 5' TpA 3' sequence. When these oligonucleotides were hybridized to their respective complements, the HMT adduct could be driven to form an interstrand crosslink by irradiation of the hybrid with 360 nm light. The ability to crosslink probe-target complexes has allowed us to determine the kinetics and the extent of hybridization in solution between these oligonucleotides and their complementary sequences in single-stranded bacteriophage M13 DNA. Our data indicate that these parameters are strongly influenced by the existence of local as well as global secondary structure in the viral DNA. During hybridization, rearrangement of this secondary structure so as to expose the target sequence can be rate-limiting. Upon attainment of equilibrium, only a portion of the target sequence may be hybridized to the probe with the remainder involved in intrastrand base-pairing. Using crosslinkable oligonucleotide probes hybridized and irradiated near the melting temperature of the respective probe-target complex one can partially overcome these secondary structure effects.
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- H B Gamper
- HRI Research Incorporated, Berkeley, CA 94710
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Hammond GL, Smith CL, Goping IS, Underhill DA, Harley MJ, Reventos J, Musto NA, Gunsalus GL, Bardin CW. Primary structure of human corticosteroid binding globulin, deduced from hepatic and pulmonary cDNAs, exhibits homology with serine protease inhibitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:5153-7. [PMID: 3299377 PMCID: PMC298812 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.15.5153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We have isolated and sequenced cDNAs for corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG) prepared from human liver and lung mRNAs. Our results indicate that CBG mRNA is relatively abundant in the liver but is also present in the lung, testis, and kidney. The liver CBG cDNA contains an open reading frame for a 405-amino acid (Mr 45,149) polypeptide. This includes a predominantly hydrophobic, leader sequence of 22 residues that precedes the known NH2-terminal sequence of human CBG. We, therefore, predict that the mature protein is composed of 383 amino acids and is a polypeptide of Mr 42,646. A second, in-frame, 72-base-pair cistron of unknown significance exists between the TAA termination codon for CBG and a possible polyadenylylation signal (AATAAA) located 16 nucleotides before the polyadenylylation site. The deduced amino acid sequence of mature CBG contains two cysteine residues and consensus sequences for the attachment of six possible N-linked oligosaccharide chains. The sequences of the human lung and liver CBG cDNAs differ by only one nucleotide within the proposed leader sequence, and we attribute this to a point mutation. No sequence homology was found between CBG and other steroid binding proteins, but there is a remarkable similarity between the amino acid sequences of CBG and of alpha 1-antitrypsin, and this extends to other members of the serpin (serine protease inhibitor) superfamily.
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Hof JV, Hernandez P, Bjerknes CA, Kraszewska EK, Lamm SS. Replication of the rRNA and legumin genes in synchronized root cells of pea (Pisum sativum): evidence for transient EcoR I sites in replicating rRNA genes. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1987; 8:133-143. [PMID: 24301048 DOI: 10.1007/bf00025324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/1986] [Accepted: 08/29/1986] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The temporal pattern of replication of the rRNA and legumin genes differs in synchronized pea root cells. The relative number of rRNA genes replicated hourly during the first five hours of S phase ranges between 5 and 10 percent. In late S phase, during hours six through nine, the number of rRNA genes replicated increases reaching a maximum of about 25 percent at the ninth hour. Unlike the rRNA genes, the legumin genes have a wave-like pattern of replication peaking in early S phase at the third hour and again in late S phase at the eighth hour.Replicating rDNA, isolated by benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-column chromatography, has EcoR I restriction sites that are absent in non-replicating rDNA sequences. The cleavage of these sites is independent of the time of rDNA replication. The transient nature of the EcoR I sites suggests that they exist in a hemimethylated state in parental DNA.The two Hind III repeat-size classes of rDNA of var. Alaska peas are replicated simultaneously as cells progress through S phase. Thus, even if the 9.0 kb and 8.6 kb repeat classes are located on different chromosomes, their temporal order of replication is the same.
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- J V Hof
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, NY, U.S.A
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Van't Hof J, Lamm SS, Bjerknes CA. Detection of replication initiation by a replicon family in DNA of synchronized pea (Pisum sativum) root cells using benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-cellulose chromatography. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1987; 9:77-86. [PMID: 24276897 DOI: 10.1007/bf00015640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/1986] [Revised: 04/08/1987] [Accepted: 04/10/1987] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Fractionated replicating DNA from pea was obtained from both synchronized cells just starting replication and from carbohydrate-starved cells ending replication. Benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-cellulose chromatography of pulse-labeled DNA digested with EcoR I gave evidence that a family of replicons initiated replication 45 to 60 min after synchronized cells were released from the G1/S phase boundary. DNA from cells labeled in late S phase, on the other hand, showed no signs of additional replication initiations before entering G2 phase. Results with DNA from both early and late S phase cells comply with a model based on the premise that with short pulses of [(3)H]-thymidine the isotope is localized at replication forks and that longer pulses label both replication forks and recently replicated segments of double-stranded DNA. The model applies only to DNA subjected to fragmentation before chromatography.The results also suggest that benzoylated naphthoylated DEAE-cellulose chromatography is a useful means to isolate origins and replication forks from synchronized plant cells.
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- J Van't Hof
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, New York, USA
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