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Pulsed field gradient electrophoresis of DNA digested in agarose allows the sizing of the large duplication unit of a surface antigen gene in trypanosomes
Authors:A Bernards  J M Kooter  P A Michels  R M Moberts  P Borst
Abstract:Intact chromosome-sized DNA molecules from eukaryotes may be prepared by performing lysis and enzymic deproteinization on cells embedded in agarose Schwartz and Cantor, Cell 37 (1984), 67-75]. Here we show that DNA prepared by this method may be cut with restriction enzymes, or modified with site-specific methylases and cut by DpnI. As the DNA remains incorporated in the gel matrix, shear degradation of large fragments is avoided. The fragments can then be sized by conventional or pulsed field gradient gel electrophoresis. Phage lambda genomic oligomers are used as size markers, allowing the estimation of fragment sizes up to about 1200 kb. We apply these techniques to show that activation of the telomeric gene encoding variant surface antigen 1.3 in Trypanosoma brucei strain 427, involves the duplication of a DNA segment that starts between 29 and 42 kb upstream of the gene and to assign a chromosomal fragment into which the duplicated 1.3 gene may have transposed.
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