Abstract:
:The contributions of direct and inverted repeats to deletion formation were studied by characterizing Ampr revertants of plasmids with a series of insertion mutations at a specific site in the pBR322 ampicillin resistance (amp) gene. The inserts at this site are palindromic, variable in length, and bracketed by 9- or 10-bp direct repeats of amp sequence. There is an additional direct repeat composed of 4 bp within the insert and 4 bp of adjoining amp sequence. DNA sequencing and colony hybridization of Ampr revertants showed that they contained either the parental amp sequence, implying deletion endpoints in the flanking 9- or 10-bp repeats, or a specific 1-bp substitution, implying endpoints in the 4-bp repeats. Although generally direct repeats seem to be used as deletion endpoints with a frequency proportional to their lengths, we found that with uninterrupted palindromes longer than 32 bp, the majority of deletions ended in the 4 bp, not the 9- or 10-bp repeats. This preferential use of the shorter direct repeats associated with palindromes is interpreted according to a DNA synthesis-error model in which hairpin structures formed by intrastrand pairing foster the slippage of nascent strands during DNA synthesis.
journal_name
Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Weston-Hafer K,Berg DEsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-04-01 00:00:00pages
651-8issue
4eissn
0016-6731issn
1943-2631journal_volume
121pub_type
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