| Literature DB >> 9885567 |
R F Kalejta1, X Li, L D Mesner, P A Dijkwel, H B Lin, J L Hamlin.
Abstract
In the Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase replication initiation zone, the ori-beta locus is preferred over other start sites. To test the hypothesis that ori-beta contains a genetic replicator, we restored a deletion in the 3' end of the DHFR gene with a cosmid that provides the missing sequence and simultaneously knocks out the downstream ori-beta locus. Replication initiates normally in ori-beta knockout cell lines, and the DHFR domain is still synthesized in early S phase. However, initiation is completely suppressed in the starting deletion variant lacking the 3' end of the gene. We conclude that ori-beta does not contain an essential replicator, but that distant sequence elements have profound effects on origin activity in this locus.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9885567 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80294-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell ISSN: 1097-2765 Impact factor: 17.970