Significance of Dimers to the Size of Newly Synthesized DNA in UV-irradiated Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells

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Journal Biophys J

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biophysics

Date 1976 Oct 1

PMID 963196

Citations 8

Authors

J M Clarkson

R R Hewitt

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Abstract

DNA synthesized after UV irradiation is smaller than that in unirradiated cells even when pulse-labeling times are increased to compensate for the overall reduction in the rate of DNA replication. By isolating newly replicated DNA, incubating it with dimer-specific endonuclease from Micrococcus luteus, and analyzing it on alkaline sucrose gradients, we have been able to demonstrate that this DNA is synthesized in segments corresponding in size to the interdimer distance on the parental strand. In addition, the same DNA analyzed on neutral gradients shows no reduction in molecular weight as a result of UV irradiation and/or endonuclease digestion. Our data are thus inconsistent with the presence of "gaps" in newly synthesized DNA opposite the dimers on the parental strand. We suggest that if such gaps are produced as a result of delayed synthesis around dimers, they are filled before the growing point reaches the next dimer.

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