Inverted repetitions in the chromosome of herpes simplex virus.
Inverted repetitions in the chromosome of herpes simplex virus.
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单纯疱疹病毒染色体的反向重复。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1974.039.01.080
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发表时间:
1975
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通讯作者:
N. Berthelot
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作者:
P. Sheldrick;N. Berthelot
Single DNA strands will sometimes fold back on themselves and form duplex regions by base pairing. This behavior is diagnostic of repeated, complementary nucleotide sequences in the strand, which are inverted with respect to one another. Examples of such inverted repetitions (ABC... C'B'A') have been found by electron microscopy in DNA from bacterial plasmids (Sharp et al. 1973), bacteriophage Mu (Hsu and Davidson 1974), eukaryotic chromatin (Thomas et al. 1974) and two animal viruses, adenovirus (Garon et al. 1972; Wolfson and Dressler 1972) and adeno-associated virus (Koczot et al. 1973; Gerry et al. 1973). Ordinary repetitions (ABC... ABC) are also found in DNA from a variety of bacteriophages (for review, see Thomas and MacHattie 1967), eukaryotic chromatin (Thomas et al. 1974), and adeno-associated virus (Gerry et al. 1973). When not exposed as cohesive ends, these sequences can be detected by circle formation in duplex molecules after digestion with exonuclease III (MacHattie et al. 1967).In this communication we describe electron microscope studies showing that intact single strands of herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA fold back on themselves in different ways to generate several structural forms. One of these forms, two circles joined by a duplex region, requires the presence of two inverted repetitions in the single strand. In addition, we observed the formation of duplex circles after treatment of native HSV DNA molecules with exonuclease Ill, indicating the presence of an ordinary repetition at the strand termini.