kDNA minicircles of the major sequence class of C. fasciculata contain a single region of bent helix widely separated from the two origins of replication.

AUTOR(ES)

Ray, D S

RESUMO

The major sequence class of Crithidia fasciculata minicircles is shown to have a single region of bent helical DNA widely separated from the two replication origins located 180 degrees apart on the minicircle map. The position of the bend in the DNA has been mapped both by gel electrophoretic methods and by direct electron microscopic observation of the DNA. This sequence directed bending is apparently the result of homopolymeric dA X dT tracts 4-6 base pairs long repeated in phase with the helix screw. The region of the bend contains nineteen such homopolymeric tracts in a region of about 200 base pairs with sixteen of the tracts oriented in the same direction.

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