Discontinuous replication of replicative form DNA from bacteriophage phiX174.
AUTOR(ES)
Machida, Y
RESUMO
Bacteriophage phiX174 DNA has been labeled with short pulses of [3H]thymidine during synthesis of replicative form molecules in infected Escherichia coli HF4704 cells. The replicating phiX174 DNA was isolated and analyzed by sedimentation in an alkaline sucrose gradient. During a brief pulse (5 sec at 30 degrees), the radioactivity incorporated into the complementary strand was found in chains much shorter than one genome length. Of the radioactivity incorporated into the viral strand, two-thirds was in the short pieces and the rest was in chains of one genome length or longer. RNA attachment to the 5' end of both strand components of the nascent short pieces was shown by the appearance of spleen exonuclease-digestable nascent molecules after alkali treatment. These observations suggest that the viral as well as the complementary strand is synthesized by the discontinuous mechanism with RNA primers during replication of duplex phiX174 DNA.
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