Structural state of newly replicated closed circular simian virus 40 DNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Rao, B S
RESUMO
We have studied the early transition of newly replicated, segregated daughter molecules of simian virus 40 (SV40) into their mature, fully supercoiled state. The DNA of SV40 replicating in African green monkey kidney CV1 cells was chronically labeled with [14C]thymidine and pulse-labeled with [3H]thymidine. The cells were lysed and the viral DNA was isolated. Density gradient centrifugation of viral DNA in cesium chloride revealed that the pulse-labeled, newly synthesized, closed circular supercoiled DNA molecules banded at a slightly higher density (delta sigma = 0.0025) than the chronically labeled DNA, suggesting that the newly completed molecules were in a different structural state. Electrophoresis of DNA in agarose gels at appropriate chloroquine concentrations demonstrated that the mobility of the pulse-labeled closed, superhelical DNA was retarded relative to that of the chronically labeled DNA. These observations indicated that the newly completed SV40 DNA molecules existed in a structural state more relaxed than that of mature DNA by one or two linking numbers.
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