Isolation of the origin of replication associated with the amplified Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase domain.
AUTOR(ES)
Burhans, W C
RESUMO
Autoradiography of restriction digests of DNA labeled in early S phase indicates that replication of the amplified dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) domain of methotrexate-resistant CHOC 400 cells initiates within a 6.1-kilobase pair (kb) EcoRI-doublet located on the 3' side of the DHFR gene. To localize the DHFR origin fragment, synchronized CHOC 400 cells were either pulse labeled with [3H]thymidine in vivo or permeabilized and incubated with [32P]dATP under conditions that support limited chromosomal DNA replication. The temporal order of replication of amplified fragments was determined by hybridization of the in vivo or in vitro replication products to cloned fragments spanning the earliest-replicating portion of the DHFR domain. At the G1/S boundary, the labeled products derived from the replication of amplified sequences, either in whole or permeabilized cells, are distributed about an amplified 4.3-kb Xba I fragment that maps 14 kb downstream from the DHFR gene. As cells progress through the S phase, bidirectional replication away from this site is observed. These studies indicate that the 4.3-kb Xba I fragment contains the origin of replication associated with the amplified DHFR domain.
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