Methylation state and DNase I sensitivity of chromatin containing Moloney murine leukemia virus DNA in exogenously infected mouse cells.
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Montandon, P E
RESUMO
The nature of Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV)-specific proviral DNA in exogenously infected mouse cells was studied. M-MuLV clone A9 cells, NIH-3T3 fibroblasts productively infected with M-MuLV, were used. These cells contain 10 to 15 copies of M-MuLV proviral DNA. The state of methylation of M-MuLV proviral DNA was examined by cleaving A9 cell DNA with restriction endonucleases which have the dinucleotide CpG in their cleavage sequences. Analysis with such enzymes, which recognized nine different sites in M-MuLV DNA, indicated that most if not all of the M-MuLV proviruses in A9 cells were completely unmethylated. An individual proviral integration was examined, using as probe adjacent single-copy cellular sequences. These sequences were obtained from a lambda phage recombinant clone containing an M-MuLV provirus from the A9 cells. This individual integration also showed no detectable methylation. In contrast, endogenous MuLV-related sequences present in NIH-3T3 cells before infection were largely methylated. The configuration chromatin containing M-MuLV proviruses was also investigated by digesting A9 nuclei with DNase I, followed by restriction analysis of the remaining DNA. Endogenous MuLV-related DNA was in chromatin relatively resistant to DNase I digestion, whereas the majority of M-MuLV-specific proviruses were in domains of intermediate DNase I sensitivity. Two proviral copies hypersensitive to DNase I digestion were identified. Analogy to the DNase I sensitivity of expressed and nonexpressed globin genes suggested that the proviral copies containing DNase I-hypersensitive sites were transcribed.
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