Monomer and multimer covalently closed circular forms of Rous sarcoma virus DNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Goubin, G
RESUMO
Covalently closed circular molecules of viral DNA synthesized in virus-infected cells are composed mainly of monomers sedimenting at 22 to 27S in neutral sucrose gradients. These monomers are detected by annealing with complementary DNA or transfection assay. However, 11% of the infectious circles sediment faster than monomers. There is a peak at 32S which may correspond to dimer molecules. Traces of infectivity (about 3%) found between 32S and 65S suggest the presence of higher oligomers. In alkaline sucrose gradients, covalently closed monomers are found at 64 to 71S. Infectivity of these monomers is reduced by alkali treatment to less than one-tenth, and, perhaps for this reason, no infectious dimers or higher oligomers are observed. It has been shown that upon resedimentation the dimers of 95 can be separated from monomers and detected by hybridization.
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