Properties of a membrane-attached form of the folded chromosome of Escherichia coli.
Properties of a membrane-attached form of the folded chromosome of Escherichia coli.
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大肠杆菌折叠染色体膜附着形式的特性。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(74)90576-2
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发表时间:
1974
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
E. Burgi
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文献类型:
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作者:
A. Worcel;E. Burgi
Two types of DNA-containing particles are released from lysozyme-producedEscherichia colispheroplasts after gentle lysis with non-ionic detergents in 1.-0m-NaCl. Lysis at 25 °C releases the folded chromosomes (1300 S to 2200 S particles). Lysis at 10 °C results in faster sedimenting structures (3000 S to 4000 S). Both types of particles coexist in extracts of cells lysed at intermediate temperatures, i.e. 15 °C.The 3000 S to 4000 S particles are folded chromosomes attached to membrane fragments; they contain membrane proteins and phospholipids in addition to the folded DNA and nascent RNA chains. Incubation of the membrane-attached chromosomes with 1% Sarkosyl releases the folded chromosomes; this Sarkosyl treatment removes the membrane proteins and phospholipids, and halves the sedimentation velocity of the particles, but has no effect on the folded DNA and nascent RNA chains.Membrane-attached chromosomes cannot be isolated from amino acid-starved cells which have completed their rounds of DNA replication; all of the DNA then appears as released folded chromosomes. After resumption of protein synthesis, chromosome attachment to the membrane precedes the initiation of DNA replication. Controls strongly suggest that the changes observed, i.e. the attachment and release from the membrane of the folded chromosome, are related to the act of DNA replication itself.