Kinetoplast DNA of Trypanosoma brucei: Physical map of the maxicircle |
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Authors: | Kenneth Stuart |
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Institution: | Issaquah Group for Health and Environmental Research, 1595 Northwest Gilman Boulevard, Issaquah, Washington 98027 USA |
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Abstract: | Trypanosoma brucei maxicircle DNA in kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) networks was characterized with restriction endonucleases. The data allow the construction of a circular map of a 22.2-kb molecule. Based on these and previous data each T. brucei kDNA network contains about 45 maxicircles which probably have the same sequence. The maxicircle of strain 164 used in this study was slightly larger and had three EcoRI sites compared to two found in other strains. Fragments generated by digestion with BamHI were largely singly cleaved maxicircles that had a density of 1.681 g/cm3 compared to 1.693 g/cm3 for the intact network. This suggests that maxicircles have a higher A + T content than minicircles. Minicircles in the kDNA network were also characterized with restriction endonucleases. Each enzyme cleaved a specific subset of minicircles from the network. However, no single restriction endonuclease or combination of up to three of these enzymes cleaved all molecules in the network. These results are consistent with earlier results of renaturation kinetic experiments and indicate that there are many different sequence classes of mini-circle DNA. |
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