CHARACTERIZATION OF THE REPLICATION OF PLASMIDS CONTAINING HR SEQUENCES IN BACULOVIRUS-INFECTED SPODOPTERA-FRUGIPERDA CELLS
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE REPLICATION OF PLASMIDS CONTAINING HR SEQUENCES IN BACULOVIRUS-INFECTED SPODOPTERA-FRUGIPERDA CELLS
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DOI:
10.1006/viro.1993.1529
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发表时间:
1993-10-01
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影响因子:
3.7
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ROHRMANN, GF
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作者:
LEISY, DJ;ROHRMANN, GF
The replication of a series of plasmids, each containing one or more of 6 homologous regions (hrs) from theAutographa californicamultinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) genome, was investigated in AcMNPV-infectedSpodoptera frugiperdacells. Although a construct containinghr2 showed the most efficient replication, the sequences flanking thehrregion appeared to influence the levels of replication. Plasmids with non-hr-containing AcMNPV inserts showed greatly reduced replication relative tohr-containing plasmids. A variety of features ofhr-containing plasmid replication were characterized. These included the time course of plasmid replication and the influence of plasmid concentration and multiplicity of infection of the helper AcMNPV on replication efficiency. It was found that replicated plasmid DNA was detectable by 36 hr p.i. and plateaued by 60 hr p.i. Under our experimental conditions, plasmid levels of 0.5-2 μg/1.25 × 106cells and multiplicities of infection of 0.1 to 10 produced optimal levels of plasmid replication. The transfection procedure was shown to delay viral DNA replication by about 12 hr. Experiments directed toward determining the form of the replicatedhr-containing plasmid DNA were conducted using partial restriction enzyme digestion. The results indicated that the AcMNPV-replicated plasmids were composed of high molecular weight concatemers.