Recombinant DNA formation in a cell-free system from Xenopus laevis eggs - PubMed (original) (raw)
Recombinant DNA formation in a cell-free system from Xenopus laevis eggs
R M Benbow et al. Cell. 1977 Sep.
Abstract
A cell-free system is described which formed very high levels of recombinant DNA structures in 4 hr at 26 degrees C. It consisted of a single fraction of a high speed supernatant prepared from an extract of unfertilized eggs of the frog Xenopus laevis. This fraction eluted at 0.16-0.18 M Tris homogenization buffer from a DEAE-cellulose column. When two partially homologous supercoiled DNA molecules of different contour lengths were incubated simultaneously in this system, high levels of heterologous figure eight DNA structures were formed and observed by electron microscopy. Subsequently cleavage of the newly formed figure eight structures with Bam HI and Eco RI restriction endonucleases gave rise to "alpha structures" and "chi structures." The observed figure eight structures presumably represent the recombination intermediate predicted by the Holliday model for genetic recombination.
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