Open AccessIsolation of short interspersed repetitive DNA sequences present in the regions of initiation of mammalian DNA replication
Author(s) -
ANACHKOVA Boyka,
TODOROVA Maria,
VASSILEV Lyubomir,
RUSSEV George
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08163.x
Subject(s) - biology , microbiology and biotechnology , repeated sequence , dna , dna replication , eukaryotic dna replication , chromatin , semiconservative replication , dna synthesis , genetics , genome , gene
Nascent DNA chains containing the putative replication origins were isolated from cells of human embryonic lung fibroblasts, Hela, Ehrlich ascites tumour and Guerin ascites tumour as described earlier [Russev, G., and Vassilev, L. (1982) J. Mol Biol. 161 , 77–87]. It was demonstrated that the synthesis of these nascent chains correlated with the ability of cells to initiate semiconservative DNA replication. Reassociation and electrophoretic analysis showed that the nascent chains from all four cell lines contained middle repetitive DNA in the form of short interspersed sequences. Mouse repetitive sequences were isolated and hybridized to Escherichia coli , chicken call and rat DNA and to homologous hnRNA. The kinetics of hybridization indicated that the repetitive sequences found in the vicinity of the replication origins were order‐specific and were not heavily transcribed. Reassociation experiments, in which homologous DNA isolated from nuclei digested with micrococcal nuclease to different extents was used as a driver, showed that these repetitive sequences were organized into nucleosomes like the bulk of the chromatin.