The Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase origin consists of multiple potential nascent-strand start sites.

AUTOR(ES)

Dijkwel, P A

RESUMO

Previous two-dimensional gel replicon-mapping studies on the amplified dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) domain in CHOC 400 cells suggested that replication can initiate at any of a large number of sites scattered throughout a 55-kb region lying between two convergently transcribed genes. It could be argued that this unusual distributive initiation mode is unique to amplified chromosomal loci. In this paper, we report the first application of the two-dimensional gel techniques to the analysis of a single-copy locus in mammalian cells. Results obtained with both synchronized and exponentially growing CHO cells suggest that (i) initiation can also occur at any of a large number of sites distributed throughout the intergenic region in the nonamplified DHFR locus, (ii) initiation is confined to the first 2 to 2.5 h of the S period, and (iii) initiation occurs only in a fraction of the DHFR loci in each cell cycle.

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