Effects of palindromes on in vivo DNA replication and mutagenesis in bacteriophage phi X174 RF DNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Müller, U R
RESUMO
Bacteriophage phi X174 mutants with insertions of palindromic DNA sequences are rapidly outgrown by competing wild-type phage (Müller & Turnage, J. Mol. Biol. 189: 285). The basis for this defect was investigated and found to be due to an exclusion event early in the infectious cycle, in which phage genomes with palindromic inserts were preferentially excluded by wt phage. In addition, we have obtained further evidence for a palindrome induced genetic instability. Both defects are dependent on palindrome size and sequence, consistent with a model which involves formation of cruciforms, or cruciform-like structures. We propose that formation of unusual DNA secondary structures reduces the effectiveness of replicative form (RF) DNA to interact with limiting replication factors or membrane binding sites, possibly because of interaction with the host recombination system.
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