Deletions in Plasmid Pbr322: Replication Slippage Involving Leading and Lagging Strands
AUTOR(ES)
Weston-Hafer, K.
RESUMO
We test here whether a class of deletions likely to result from errors during DNA replication arise preferentially during synthesis of either the leading or the lagging DNA strand. Deletions were obtained by reversion of particular insertion mutant alleles of the pBR322 amp gene. The alleles contain insertions of palindromic DNAs bracketed by 9-bp direct repeats of amp sequence; in addition, bp 2 to 5 in one arm of the palindrome form a direct repeat with 4 bp of adjoining amp sequence. Prior work had shown that reversion to Amp(r) results from deletions with endpoints in the 9- or 4-bp repeats, and that the 4-bp repeats are used preferentially because one of them is in the palindrome. To test the role of leading and lagging strand synthesis in deletion formation, we reversed the direction of replication of the amp gene by inverting the pBR322 replication origin, and also constructed new mutant alleles with a 4-bp repeat starting counterclockwise rather than clockwise of the insertion. In both cases the 4-bp repeats were used preferentially as deletion endpoints. A model is presented in which deletions arise during elongation of the strand that copies the palindrome before the adjoining 4-bp repeat, and in which preferential use of the 4-bp repeats independent of the overall direction of replication implies that deletions arise during syntheses of both leading and lagging strands.
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