Replicative Intermediates of Bacteriophage T7 Deoxyribonucleic Acid
AUTOR(ES)
Center, Melvin S.
RESUMO
After infection with bacteriophage T7, parental and newly synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) exhibit an extremely fast sedimentation rate in neutral sucrose gradients. This fast-sedimenting component (intermediate I) has a sedimentation constant of about 1,500S and contains T7 DNA as determined by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments. Pulse-chase experiments indicate that the fast-sedimenting material is metabolically active and serves as a precursor to the formation of T7 DNA. Intermediate I contains about 2.5 to 7% of the total 3H-labeled protein formed between 3 and 9.5 min after T7 infection. Treatment of intermediate I with Pronase results in the release of the DNA from the complex. At early times after infection, a second intermediate (intermediate II) can be detected which contains both parental and newly synthesized DNA sedimenting slower than intermediate I but 2 to 3 times as fast as mature T7 DNA. Intermediates I and II containing parental DNA are formed after infection of the nonpermissive host with an amber mutant in gene 1, a gene whose expression is necessary for the synthesis of most T7 proteins. The two intermediates are also observed when infection with T7 wild type is carried out in the presence of chloramphenicol.
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