TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of a supercoil-dependent S1 sensitive site 5' to the Drosophila melanogaster hsp 26 gene
AU - Siegfried, Esther
AU - Thomas, Graham H.
AU - Bond, Ursula M.
AU - Elgin, Sarah C.R.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant # GM3O273 and National Science Foundation grant #DCB-8601449 to S.C.R.E. E.S. was supported in part by a National Research Services Award # GMO7O67 in the Washington University Training Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
PY - 1986/12/9
Y1 - 1986/12/9
N2 - We have analyzed the prominent supercoil-dependent S1 nuclease cleavage site 5' to hsp 26 in the plasmid 88B13, which contains 11.7 kilobases fron the Drosophila locus 67B1. The double stranded cleavage product is generated by initial nicking on the purine strand, six preferred sites occurring between positions -96 and -90 (relative to the start of transcription) with weaker ones extending to position -84, followed by cleavage on the pyriraidine strand at positions -86 and -84. A derivative of 88B13, 88B13-X, was generated by insertion of an Xho I linker at position -84; this does not affect the positions or strand specificity of the Si cleavage in that region. A small deletion, Ml.l, renoves the homopurine/honopyrimidine stretch from positions -86 to -132 and is no longer sensitive to cleavage by SI nuclease 5' to hsp 26. Mung bean and Pi nucleases recognize the same site 5' to hsp 26 and give the sane general pattern of cleavage. All three nucleases show an initial cleavage of 88B13 DNA at this site at pH 5.5 but not at pH 6.5, indicating that the DNA structure there may be pH dependent in vitro.
AB - We have analyzed the prominent supercoil-dependent S1 nuclease cleavage site 5' to hsp 26 in the plasmid 88B13, which contains 11.7 kilobases fron the Drosophila locus 67B1. The double stranded cleavage product is generated by initial nicking on the purine strand, six preferred sites occurring between positions -96 and -90 (relative to the start of transcription) with weaker ones extending to position -84, followed by cleavage on the pyriraidine strand at positions -86 and -84. A derivative of 88B13, 88B13-X, was generated by insertion of an Xho I linker at position -84; this does not affect the positions or strand specificity of the Si cleavage in that region. A small deletion, Ml.l, renoves the homopurine/honopyrimidine stretch from positions -86 to -132 and is no longer sensitive to cleavage by SI nuclease 5' to hsp 26. Mung bean and Pi nucleases recognize the same site 5' to hsp 26 and give the sane general pattern of cleavage. All three nucleases show an initial cleavage of 88B13 DNA at this site at pH 5.5 but not at pH 6.5, indicating that the DNA structure there may be pH dependent in vitro.
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U2 - 10.1093/nar/14.23.9425
DO - 10.1093/nar/14.23.9425
M3 - Article
C2 - 3025814
AN - SCOPUS:0023045649
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 14
SP - 9425
EP - 9444
JO - Nucleic acids research
JF - Nucleic acids research
IS - 23
ER -