Article
Influence of highly curved DNA segments on in vivo topology of plasmids.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Dec 1999
Ohyama T, Miyano M, Sakuma S
Abstract excerpt
Recombinant plasmids carrying a highly curved DNA structure are sometimes unstable in Escherichia coli. In order to know the underlying mechanism, several plasmids carrying one or two highly bent DNA segment(s) from the human adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) enhancer and/or origin region of phage lambda replication were systematically constructed and propagated in E. coli. The highly bent DNA segments disturbed the action...
Topics
- Adenoviruses, Human
- Bacteriophage lambda
- Base Sequence
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I
- DNA, Viral
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Plasmids
- Replication Origin
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
