Visualization of novel simian virus 40 DNA recombination intermediates induced by ultraviolet light irradiation.
AUTOR(ES)
Hsu, M T
RESUMO
Electron microscopic technique was used to examine the structures of SV40 DNA recombination intermediates induced by ultraviolet irradiation as an approach for understanding recombination mechanisms in animal cells. Putative recombination intermediate with the characteristic Holliday junction was observed in both SV40 and CV-1 monkey kidney cell DNA. These results suggest that Holliday recombination intermediate is a common intermediate in eukaryotic as well as prokaryotic recombination pathways. In UV irradiated cells, putative SV40 DNA recombination intermediates with multiple recombining partners were observed. In addition, UV irradiation induced two types of novel joint molecules of SV40 DNA. The first type contains replication intermediates as one of the joint molecules with the putative recombination junction located in the newly replicated DNA arms. The second type of novel joint molecules is represented by of the 'dumbbell' structures with two circular SV40 DNA linked by a linear DNA of varying lengths. The structures of these novel recombination intermediates suggest a strand-invasion mechanism for UV-induced DNA recombination.
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