Abstract:
:pBR322 DNA, linearized by lysis of an oxolinic acid-treated culture of Escherichia coli strain DK6recA- (pBR322) with sodium dodecyl sulfate, was purified, treated with DNA polymerase in the presence of the four deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ligated to DNA linkers containing the XhoI recognition sequence. Most of the drug-resistant colonies resulting from transformation of E. coli with this material bore plasmids that appeared by restriction enzyme analysis to differ from pBR322 only by the introduction of an XhoI site. The XhoI sites in plasmids from 93 transformants were distributed unevenly around the pBR322 map. Maxam-Gilbert DNA sequence analysis of 36 of these plasmids, labeled at the 5' termini of the XhoI sites, revealed that 29 of them contained, in addition to the XhoI linker, a duplication of four base-pairs of the pBR322 sequence surrounding the linker. Therefore, oxolinic acid-induced linearization must have resulted in 5'-terminal extensions of four bases, the configuration known to result from oxolinic acid-induced DNA cleavage by DNA gyrase in vitro. The sequence data thus allowed the determination of the precise point at which linearization occurred, apparently by the abortion of a gyrase-DNA covalent intermediate that existed in vivo. When the 19 different sites of the 29 plasmids were compared, the following set of rules could be derived: (formula; see text) where N is any nucleotide, R is a purine, and Y is a pyrimidine. Cleavage occurred at the line between the eighth and ninth positions from the left. The parenthetical G and T were preferred secondarily to T and G, respectively, whereas T and G in the 13th position from the left were equally preferred. Several of these rules are similar to those proposed previously based on several in vitro gyrase cleavage sites. Some of our rules show dyad symmetry around the axis midway between the cleavage points in the two strands, while others are distinctly asymmetric.
journal_name
J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Lockshon D,Morris DRdoi
10.1016/0022-2836(85)90324-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-01-05 00:00:00pages
63-74issue
1eissn
0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
0022-2836(85)90324-9journal_volume
181pub_type
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