Intracellular Forms of Adenovirus DNA III. Integration of the DNA of Adenovirus Type 2 into Host DNA in Productively Infected Cells

AUTOR(ES)

Burger, Harold

RESUMO

KB cells productively infected with human adenovirus type 2 contain an alkalistable class of viral DNA sedimenting in a broad zone between 50 and 90S as compared to 34S for virion DNA. This type of DNA is characterized as viral by DNA-DNA hybridization. It is extremely sensitive to shear fragmentation. Extensive control experiments demonstrate that the fast-sedimenting viral DNA is not due to artifactual drag of viral DNA mechanically trapped in cellular DNA or to association of viral DNA with protein or RNA. Furthermore, the fast-sedimenting DNA is found after infection with multiplicities between 1 and 1,000 PFU/cell and from 6 to 8 h postinfection until very late in infection (24 h). Analysis in dye-buoyant density gradients eliminates the possibility that the fast-sedimenting viral DNA represents supercoiled circular molecules. Upon equilibrium centrifugation in alkaline CsCl density gradients, the fast-sedimenting viral DNA bands in a density stratum intermediate between that of cellular and viral DNA. In contrast, the 34S virion DNA isolated and treated in the same manner as the fast-sedimenting DNA cobands with viral marker DNA. After ultrasonic treatment of the fast-sedimenting viral DNA, it shifts to the density positions of viral DNA and to a lesser extent to that of cellular DNA. The evidence presented here demonstrates that the 50 to 90S viral DNA represents adenovirus DNA covalently integrated into cell DNA.

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