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A manganese-stimulated endonuclease from Bacillus subtilis 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
An endonuclease activity has been identified in extracts of . This activity is stimulated by Mn++ or Ca++ ions but not by Mg++ ions. The enzyme catalyzes the breakdown of native DNA of high molecular weight to fragments of molecular weights ranging from 3 × 106 to 20 × 106. A variety of DNA's from sources such as and T7 phage are attacked. About 61% of the activity of the cells is released into the medium during protoplast formation under conditions where 98% of the glucose 6-P dehydrogenase activity is retained by the cells. 相似文献
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T. B. Kazakova S. G. Babich M. P. Mel'nikova N. V. Tzimbalenko E. A. Braga V. V. Nosikov 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》1981,35(1):39-47
Summary Rat-liver mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) contains 2 cleavage sites of the restriction endonuclease XbaI. The molecular sizes of
restriction fragments are 6.6×106 and 3.7×106 D.
The results of partial cleavage of mtDNA with EcoRI allow the fragment F (0.32×106 D) to be localized in the sequence ABCEGFHDA. The functional map of mtDNA is constructed for two genes of the ATP-ase mRNAs
from rat-liver mitochondria.
Molecular hybridization shows that the ATPase genes are located in fragment B and in the GEHD area of mtDNA EcoRI cleavage. 相似文献
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Dimers of escherichia coli F' factors 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Covalently closed circular DNA dimers of several sex factors have been isolated. One of these, F′451, a dimer of F′450, has a molecular weight of 230 × 106 daltons. F′451 (λ) containing a λ prophage has a molecular weight of 260 × 106 and is probably the largest covalent closed circle of DNA yet reported. These dimers arise spontaneously and are of unknown origin and significance. 相似文献
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The mitochondrial phenotype of and other extra-nuclear mutants is known to predominate over that of wild type in heteroplasms. This phenomenon was investigated in heterokaryons using normally occurring strain differences in restriction enzyme patterns to distinguish wild-type and mitochondrial DNAs. Each of ten independent heterokaryons eventually showed the phenotype as judged by slow growth rate and deficiency of 19 S RNA. Six heterokaryons contained mitochondrial DNAs with restriction enzyme patterns of the parent whereas four contained DNAs which lacked restriction enzyme fragments characteristic of the parent. The latter may be recombinants of wild-type and mitochondrial DNA. 相似文献
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M A Handel J Papaconstantinou D P Allison E M Julku E T Chin 《Developmental biology》1973,35(2):240-249
During the mid to late 4th instar period of larval development, the mitochondria of Rhynchosciara spermatocytes undergo highly characteristic morphological changes. In late meiosis the enlarged mitochondria fuse to form a single mitochondrial element which will ultimately extend the length of the spermatid tail. Our studies have shown that synthesis of a circular DNA occurs during this period of mitochondrial “differentiation.” This DNA has a density of 1.681 g/cm3; and its synthesis cannot be detected in somatic tissues such as salivary gland, fat body, or gastric cecum. From analysis of DNA extracted from mitochondrial pellets, we have shown that the circular DNA is associated with the mitochondria. The contour length of the mitochondrial DNA is 9 μm, equivalent to a molecular weight of 18 × 106. Although most metazoan mitochondrial DNAs exhibit contour lengths of approximately 5 μm (10 × 105 daltons), there is no extractable 5 μm circular DNA in these spermatocytes. Therefore, we conclude that either Rhynchosciara spermatocytes possess a distinct 9 μm mitochondrial DNA or that the spermatocyte mitochondrial DNA represents dimers of 5 μm monomers. 相似文献
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Molecular characterization of a stable Flac plasmid 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
F L Macrina E Balbinder A Bassel 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1973,54(2):737-743
FS is a thermostable extrachromosomal element isolated in which is altered in its replication as compared to its precursor Fts114. Sedimentation of both these plasmids in alkaline sucrose gradients has indicated a difference in their sizes. Contour length measurements of open circular plasmid DNA molecules photographed in the electron microscope have revealed the estimated molecular weight of Fts114 to be 81 × 106 daltons while that of FS is 109 × 106 daltons. FS may carry a segment of chromosomal or cryptic plasmid DNA. 相似文献
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K Shimada T Nakamura S Maeda Y Takagi 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1977,75(3):659-666
Ampicillin-resistant colonies that did not utilize galactose appeared sporadically in cultures of galactose genedeleted K-12 cells containing colicin E1 factor carrying genes for galactose utilization and ampicillin resistance. Most of these colonies contained small plasmid DNAs. These plasmids existed as monomer DNAs within K-12 cells and formed a series of covalently closed circular DNA molecules ranging in size from 6.3 × 106 to 15.1 × 106 daltons. The use of these plasmid DNAs was discussed. 相似文献
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The ATPase enzyme system from two-spotted spider mites, (Koch) was sensitive, in vitro, to four acaricides. Tricyclohexylhydroxytin (PlictranR) was an outstanding inhibitor of oligomycin-sensitive (mitochondrial) Mg2+ATPase from fish brain and spider mite homogenates. The I50 values were 6.6×10?11M and 6.2×10?10M, respectively. Less effective were chlorbenside, chlorfenethol and ovotran. Plictran at a higher concentration (2×10?7M) was also more effective on Na+-K+ATPase both in mites and fish brain homogenates as compared to chlorfenethol, chlorbenside and ovotran. Plictran inhibited oligomycin-insensitive Mg2+ATPase at concentrations of 10?8M but stimulated at high concentrations (5×10?6M and higher). 相似文献
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This paper reports a calculation of the angular dependence of light scattering from wormlike chains with excluded volume effects. The Daniels distribution function, modified for excluded volume effects, is used to compute averages for scattering elements separated by contour lengths which are long with respect to the persistence length of the chain. An expansion in terms of exactly known moments of the distribution for the wormlike coil without excluded volume is used for short contour lengths. The results are applied to scattering from calf thymus (M = 18.1 × 106) and T7 (M = 25.4 × 106) DNA. It is demonstrated that the same values of excluded volume parameter (ε = 0.11) and statistical segment length (1/λ′ = 900 Å) which explain the sedimentation and viscosity behavior of DNA also account satisfactorily for the scattering behavior. Molecular weights and root-mean-square radii estimated by extrapolation from scattering data obtained in the angular region from 10° to 25° will be 5–10% too large for DNA of molecular weight 20 × 106–30 × 106. 相似文献
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M M Nass 《Journal of molecular biology》1973,80(1):155-175
Information has been lacking as to whether mitochondrial DNA of animal cells is methylated. The methylation patterns of mitochondrial and nuclear DNAs of several mammalian cell lines have therefore been compared by four methods: (1) in vivo transfer of the methyl group from [methyl-3H]methionine; (2) in vivo incorporation of [32P]orthophosphate and a combination of (1) and (2); (3) in vivo incorporation of [3H]deoxycytidine; (4) in vitro methylation of DNAs with 3H-labeled S-adenosylmethionine as methyl donor and DNA methylase preparations from L cell nuclei. The cell lines were mouse L cells, , (baby hamster kidney cells transformed by the Bryan strain of Rouse sarcoma virus), and PyY (BHK cells transformed by polyoma virus). DNA bases were separated chromatographically, using 5-methylcytosine, 6-methylaminopurine and, in some cases, 7-methylguanine as markers.Mitochondrial DNA was found to be significantly less methylated than nuclear DNA with respect to 5-methylcytosine in all cell types studied and by all methods used. The relative advantages and disadvantages of each method have been discussed. The level of 5-methylcytosine in mitochondrial DNA as compared with that in nuclear DNA was estimated as one-fourth to one-fourteenth in various cell lines. The estimated 5-methylcytosine content per circular mitochondrial DNA molecule (mol. wt 10 × 106) was about 12 methylcytosine residues for L cells and 24, 30 and 36 methylcytosine residues for BHK, B4 and PyY cells, respectively. Relative to cytosine residues, the estimate was one 5-methylcytosine per 500 cytosine residues of mitochondrial DNA and one 5-methylcytosine per 36 cytosine residues of nuclear DNA from L-cells. The values for methylcytosine of mitochondrial DNA are presumed to be maximal. PyY cells as compared with other cells had the highest methylcytosine content of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA as estimated by method (3). No methylation of nuclear DNA was observed in confluent L cells.Evidence for the presence of DNA methylase activity associated with mitochondrial fractions was obtained. This activity could be distinguished from other cellular DNA methylase activity by differential response to mercaptoethanol. Radioactivity from 3H-labeled S-adenosylmethionine was found only in 5-methyl-cytosine of DNA. 相似文献
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The association constant for the interaction of daunomycin with DNA was determined as a function of temperature (using [3H] daunomycin in conventional equilibrium dialysis cells) and ionic strength (using a spectrophotometric titration method). The association constant varied between 3.1 × 106 M?1 (4°C) and 3.9 × 105 M?1 (65°C). The free energy change was ?8.2 to ?8.8 , the enthalpy change ?5.3 and the entropy change +10 to +11 eu, all values being consistent with that expected of an intercalation process. The apparent number of intercalation sites detected (0.15 to 0.16 per nucleotide) was independent of temperature. The large positive entropy change accompanying the interaction appeals to be due to extensive release of water from the DNA and daunomycin. The apparent number of binding sites increased dramatically with decrease of ionic strength, although the apparent association constant remained largely unaffected by ionic strength. 相似文献
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A Rosner K M Jakob J Gressel D Sagher 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1975,67(1):383-391
A 0.5 × 106r RNA found in plastids of the aquatic angiosperm , is synthesized at a much higher rate than any other rapidly labeling RNA species about h after dark-grown plants are transferred to light. The pulse labeling kinetics of the 0.5 × 106r RNA after transfer to light, argue against its involvement in the biogenesis of plant rRNAs. Although poly(A) RNA is found in , poly(A) sequences are not detected in the 0.5 × 106r RNA; yet a sucrose gradient fraction which includes RNA of this r stimulates amino acid incorporation by an cell free extract more than other RNA fractions. The possible involvement of the 0.5 × 106r RNA as a chloroplast messenger is discussed. 相似文献
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Richard A. Firtel Andrew Cockburn Gary Frankel Vickers Hershfield 《Journal of molecular biology》1976,102(4):831-852
The genome of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum has been analyzed by limit digestion with EcoR1 restriction endonuclease. Approximately 15% of the nuclear genome is cleaved into nine discrete fragments as analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. These fragments appear to be derived from two nuclear buoyant density satellites, one of which contains sequences coding for ribosomal RNA. The bulk of the nuclear DNA is digested into approximately 7000 fragments with a mean molecular weight of 4 × 106 to 5 × 106. The mitochondrial DNA is digested into four fragments. One of the nuclear bands has been cloned in Escherichia coli using plasmid pSC101 carrying tetracyline resistance. Analysis by renaturation kinetics indicates that it is repeated approximately 200 times per haploid genome and that it is not internally repeated. 相似文献
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Autonomous rDNA molecules containing single copies of the ribosomal RNA genes in the macronucleus of Tetrahymena pyriformis 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
J Engberg G Christiansen V Leick 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1974,59(4):1356-1365
The DNA containing the genes for rRNA (commonly called rDNA) of sediments in sucrose density gradients considerably slower than the main part of the DNA when DNA from gently lysed whole cells or isolated nuclei are fractionated by this method. In rDNA purified by CsCl gradient centrifugation about 20% of the DNA (40% of the bases in one strand) consists of sequences homologous to 25S and 17S rRNA as determined by DNA-RNA hybridization. The purified rDNA co-sediments in sucrose gradients with Ø29 phage DNA (M.W. = 11 × 106). Examination by electron microscopy of the rDNA demonstrates that the molecules are linear with a length of 5.65 ±0.6 μm corresponding to a molecular weight of 11 × 106. 相似文献
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Twenty-eight Bam H 1 restriction fragments were isolated from normal mitochondrial DNA of maize by recombinant DNA techniques to investigate the organization of the mitochondrial genome. Each cloned fragment was tested by molecular hybridization against a Bam digest of total mitochondrial DNA. Using Southern transfers, we identified the normal fragment of origin for d each clone. Twenty-three of the tested clones hybridized only to the fragment from which the clone was derived. In five cases, labeling of an additional band indicated some sequence repetition in the mitochondrial genome. Four clones from normal mitochondrial DNA were found which share sequences with the plasmid-like DNAs, S-1 and S-2, found in S male sterile cytoplasm. The total sequence complexity of the clones tested is 121×106 d (daltons), which approximates two thirds of the total mitochondrial genome (estimated at 183×106 d). Most fragments do not share homology with other fragments, and the total length of unique fragments exceeds that of the largest circular molecules observed. Therefore, the different size classes of circular molecules most likely represent genetically discrete chromosomes in a complex organelle genome. The variable abundance of different mitochondrial chromosomes is of special interest because it represents an unusual mechanism for the control of gene expression by regulation of gene copy number. This mechanism may play an important role in metabolism or biogenesis of mitochondria in the development of higher plants. 相似文献
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Characterization of mycoplasmatales virus DNA 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The DNA of the group L1 virus, MVL51, was analyzed using alkaline sucrose velocity sedimentation, neutral and alkaline CsCl isopycnic sedimentation, and treatment of the DNA with nucleases. These treatments show that the viral chromosome is a covalently linked single-stranded DNA circle of molecular weight 2×106 daltons. 相似文献
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Carl A. Miller Philip Wang Michael Flashner 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1978,83(4):1479-1487
2-Deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid and its methyl ester are competitive inhibitors of Arthrobacter sialophilus neuraminidase with Ki = 1.4 × 10?6 and 4.8 × 10?5, respectively. The Km for the substrate, N-acetylneuraminlactose, is 1.0 × 10?3. These data, taken together with the conformation of these compounds, indicate that these compounds are transition-state analogs of the enzyme. These results also suggest that the substrate upon binding to neuraminidase is distorted to a conformation approaching that of a half-chair. 相似文献
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We report the construction of recombinant plasmids containing part of the mitochondrial DNA of . Of the four fragments of this DNA generated by the restriction endonuclease HindIII, two were successfully cloned into the HindIII site of the plasmid pCM2. Unexpectedly the other two fragments could not be isolated by cloning into the HindIII site of either pCM2 or pBR322. Part of a third fragment, containing the gene for the large ribosomal RNA, was incorporated into the PstI site of pBR322. We show that this recombinant plasmid contains sequences complementary to an abundant RNA species which is present in embryos and which binds to oligo-dT-cellulose. 相似文献
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The chain elongation of rat liver DNA following partial hepatectomy was studied using alkaline sucrose gradients. DNA made in 5 min was less than 4 × 107 daltons and that made in 30 min was heterodisperse and by 4 hr 75% of the DNA became larger than 1 × 109 daltons. Administration of 1-β-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (ara-C) 5 min after thymidine-3H injection inhibited the chain elongation, whereas if given 30 minutes after thymidine-3H pulse did not inhibit the chain elongation. Thus the chain elongation of rat liver DNA consists of at least two steps 1) a step sensitive to ara-C involving nucleotides addition and 2) the other insensitive to ara-C and probably involving ligation of polynucleotide chains. 相似文献
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Doris Ursic John D. Kemp John P. Helgeson 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1981,101(3):1031-1037
Growth rates of two lines of tobacco () cell suspension cultures were measured in the presence or absence of G418, a new 2-deoxystreptamine antibiotic related to Gentamycin. Cell growth rates of . cv. Burley were inhibited at drug concentrations as low as 1.65 × 10?7 M. At 4 × 10?7 M, the doubling time was increased from 1.5 days (control) to 2.3 days (treatment). The drug was lethal to cells at 4 × 10?6 M, and inhibition was irreversible. Cells of . cv. Wisconsin 38 also were inhibited by the drug, although at slightly higher concentrations (ca. 2–5 fold).In view of our findings, G418 and its associated resistance factors could be of great value in plant genetic engineering. 相似文献