SELECTIVE DEGRADATION OF INTEGRATED MURINE LEUKEMIA PROVIRAL DNA BY DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES
SELECTIVE DEGRADATION OF INTEGRATED MURINE LEUKEMIA PROVIRAL DNA BY DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(77)90304-x
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
CEDAR, H
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作者:
PANET, A;CEDAR, H
The sensitivity to micrococcal nuclease and DNase I of the integrated proviral DNA sequences in Swiss mouse cells infected with Moloney murine leukemia virus was studied. Chromatin was separated into micrococcal nuclease-sensitive and -resistant regions, and the amount of proviral sequences in these DNA preparations was estimated by kinetic hybridization with single-stranded complementary DNA of Moloney murine leukemia virus. At least 2/3 of the proviral DNA sequences were found in the open regions of chromatin, and only 1/3 was resistant to nuclease. The proviral DNA sequences are even more sensitive to DNase I. When intact nuclei were treated with limited amounts of enzyme, only 5% of the nuclear DNA was digested, but 48% of the proviral DNA was degraded. The proviral DNA sequences in cells which do not produce virus are more resistant to nuclease digestion, as compared to virus producer cells. Thus the endogenous proviral sequences in normal uninduced Swiss mouse cells are randomly distributed between resistant and sensitive portions of chromatin when tested with micrococcal nuclease or pancreatic DNase I. The effect of cell cycle synchronization on the accessibility of the proviral sequences to pancreatic DNase I was investigated with rat cells infected with Moloney murine leukemia virus. The amount of proviral DNA sensitive to pancreatic DNase I is higher in actively dividing cells than in cells arrested at Go phase, which produce only small amounts of virus.