Intramolecular recombination in polyomavirus DNA is a nonconservative process directed from the viral intergenic region.

AUTOR(ES)

Nault, C

RESUMO

Previously, we have studied intramolecular homologous recombination in polyomavirus replicons under conditions allowing only one amplifiable recombination product to be generated from a single precursor molecule. In order to detect putative reciprocal product(s), we have now constructed precursor polyomavirus replicons which contain two copies, instead of one copy, of the viral intergenic region, including the origin of replication as well as both promoters. Upon transfection of mouse cells, constructs containing directly repeated intergenic regions yielded distinct amplifiable products, in number depending upon the functional integrity of both intergenic regions. Our data indicate that of two possible reciprocal products, a given precursor molecule would yield either one or the other but never both at the same time. Most striking, however, is the observation that promoter function is required for recombination, while the origin of replication function may be needed only for amplification of the recombination product once it has been formed. The data reported here confirm and extend previous data suggesting that (i) transcription is instrumental in recombination between direct repeats and (ii) nonconservative recombination involving direct repeats relies upon two promoters of opposing polarities.

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