Herpes Simplex Virus: Genome Size and Redundancy Studied by Renaturation Kinetics
AUTOR(ES)
Frenkel, Niza
RESUMO
Herpes simplex virus subtype 1 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was sheared in a French press to uniform fragments, denatured by heating, then allowed to reassociate. The renaturation reaction followed second-order kinetics with a single rate constant indicating that at least 95% of the genome was unique and that repetitive sequences, if present, were not detectable by this technique. The kinetic complexity of the herpes simplex genome was determined by DNA renaturation kinetics to be (95 ± 1) × 106 daltons. Since this value is in excellent agreement with the molecular weight of viral DNA [(99 ± 5) × 106 daltons] obtained from velocity sedimentation studies, it is concluded that virions contain only one species of double-stranded DNA molecules 95 × 106 to 99 × 106 daltons in molecular weight.
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