DNA synthesis in polyoma virus infection. IV. Mechanism of formation of closed-circular viral DNA deficient in superhelical turns.
AUTOR(ES)
Yu, K
RESUMO
A marked reduction in the rate of viral DNA synthesis is accompanied by an alteration to the superhelicity of progeny DNA in polyoma virus-infected cells in which protein synthesis has been inhibited by cycloheximide. Viral DNA molecules formed in the presence of cycloheximide consist predominantly of closed-circular monometric species (referred to as form Ic) characterized by a decreased superhelix density, corresponding to deltasigmao = 0.0195, as compared to form I DNA by propidium diiodide-cesium chloride isopycnic analysis. Form Ic is synthesized on pre-existing form I templates without the intervention of progeny form I as an intermediate. It is concluded that inhibition of protein synthesis results in the alteration of some process in the closure of daughter DNA that leads to a marked reduction of superhelical turns of progeny molecules. About two-thirds of form Ic molecules return to the form I conformation upon reversal of cycloheximide inhibition by a mechanism independent of DNA replication.
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