Isolation of a fraction from cauliflower mosaic virus-infected protoplasts which is active in the synthesis of (+) and (-) strand viral DNA and reverse transcription of primed RNA templates.

AUTOR(ES)

Thomas, C M

RESUMO

Sub-cellular fractions, isolated from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV)-infected turnip protoplasts, are capable of synthesising CaMV DNA in vitro on an endogenous template and of reverse transcribing oligo dT-primed cowpea mosaic virus RNA. The activity was not detected in mock-inoculated protoplasts. In vitro-labelled DNA hybridized to single-stranded M13 clones complementary to the putative origins of (-) and (+) strand CaMV DNA synthesis and to restriction endonuclease fragments encompassing more than 90% of the CaMV genome. The synthesis of (-) and (+) strand DNA appeared asymmetric. The template(s) for in vitro CaMV DNA synthesis are in a partially nuclease-resistant form. Fractions capable of in vitro CaMV DNA synthesis contained CaMV RNA both heterogeneous and as discrete species; they also contained a range of different sizes of CaMV DNA. Several lines of evidence indicate that this range of in vitro-labelled CaMV DNA, extending from 0.6kb to 8.0kb in length, represents elongating (-) strand DNA. These are discussed in relation to their role as possible replicative intermediates.

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