Two distant regions of the Epstein-Barr virus genome with sequence homologies have the same orientation and involve small tandem repeats.
AUTOR(ES)
Hudewentz, J
RESUMO
The two regions of the Epstein-Barr virus genome (DSL and DSR) carrying homologous sequences at distant parts of the long unique region are described. Cleavage of cloned DNA containing the DSR region with restriction endonucleases revealed a so far unrecognized small tandem repeat of approximately 120 base pairs present in approximately 20 copies. Heteroduplexes of the DNA of two clones containing DSL and DSR respectively, visualized in the electron microscope by cytochrome c spreading, revealed that the region of homology is approximately 2.5 kb long, involves small tandem repeats, and has the same orientation in the viral genome. Mica adsorption of the heteroduplex showed, that the homologous region consists of approximately 1.5 kb with only partial homology including the small internal repeats and 0.9 kb with well-matched duplexes. When DNA containing the DSL region reanneals, it can give rise to two single-stranded loops of the same size at different positions suggesting the presence of a row of tandem repeats also in this region.
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