Discontinuous synthesis of both strands at the growing fork during polyoma DNA replication in vitro.

AUTOR(ES)

Närkhammar-Meuth, M

RESUMO

In discontinuous polyoma DNA replication, the synthesis of Okazaki fragments is primed by RNA. During viral DNA synthesis in nuclei isolated from infected cells, 40% of the nascent short DNA fragments had the polarity of the leading strand which, in theory, could have been synthesized by a continuous mechanism. To rule out that the leading strand fragments were generated by degradation of nascent DNA, they were further characterized. DNA fragments from a segment of the genome which replication forks pass in only one direction were strand separated. The sizes of the fragments from both strands were similar, suggesting that one strand was not specifically degraded. Most important, however, the majority of the Okazaki fragments of both strands were linked to RNA at their 5' ends. For identification, the RNA was labeled at the 5' ends by [beta-32P]GTP, internally by [3H]CTP, [3H]GTP, and [3H]UTP, or at the 3' ends by 32P transfer from adjacent [32P]dTMP residues. All three kinds of labeling indicated that an equal proportion of DNA fragments from the two strands was linked to RNA primers.

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