Abstract
Most yeast strains harbor extrachromosomal 2-micrometer DNA, and this DNA synthesis, like nuclear DNA replication, is strictly under cell cycle control. A soluble extract of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae carries out semiconservative replication of added 2-micrometer DNA and Escherichia coli chimeric plasmids containing the 2-micrometer DNA. Replication is initiated on 10% of the DNA, and one round of replication is completed. The major products in early stages of replication are theta ("eye") forms which originate 140 +/- 50 nucleotides within one of the 599-base-pair inverted repeats of 2-micrometer DNA. Their replication is bidirectional and discontinuous. Extracts prepared from the cell division cycle mutant cdc8 show temperature-sensitive 2-micrometer DNA synthesis in vitro, suggesting that this in vitro system resembles in vivo 2-micrometer plasmid DNA replication. This system should provide a useful assay for the purification and characterization of yeast DNA replication proteins.
Dates
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Created | 19 years, 2 months ago (May 31, 2006, 4:36 a.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 4 months ago (April 13, 2022, 11:31 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 22, 2023, 10:29 a.m.) |
Issued | 43 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 1, 1981) |
Published | 43 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 1, 1981) |
Published Online | 43 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 1, 1981) |
Published Print | 43 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 1, 1981) |
@article{Kojo_1981, title={Yeast 2-micrometer plasmid DNA replication in vitro: origin and direction.}, volume={78}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.12.7261}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.78.12.7261}, number={12}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Kojo, H and Greenberg, B D and Sugino, A}, year={1981}, month=dec, pages={7261–7265} }