Mapping of Replication Initiation Sites in Human Ribosomal DNA by Nascent-Strand Abundance Analysis

  • Yoon Y
  • Sanchez J
  • Brun C
  • et al.
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Abstract

New techniques for mapping mammalian DNA replication origins are needed. We have modified the existing nascent-strand size analysis technique (L. Vassilev and E.M. Johnson, Nucleic Acids Res. 17:7693-7705, 1989) to provide an independent means of studying replication initiation sites. We call the new method nascent-strand abundance analysis. We confirmed the validity of this method with replicating simian virus 40 DNA as a model. We then applied nascent-strand abundance and nascent-strand size analyses to mapping of initiation sites in human (HeLa) ribosomal DNA (rDNA), a region previously examined exclusively by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis methods (R.D. Little, T.H.K. Platt, and C.L. Schildkraut, Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:6600-6613, 1993). Our results partly confirm those obtained by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis techniques. Both studies suggest that replication initiates at relatively high frequency a few kilobase pairs upstream of the transcribed region and that many additional low-frequency initiation sites are distributed through most of the remainder of the ribosomal DNA repeat unit.

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Yoon, Y., Sanchez, J. A., Brun, C., & Huberman, J. A. (1995). Mapping of Replication Initiation Sites in Human Ribosomal DNA by Nascent-Strand Abundance Analysis. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 15(5), 2482–2489. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.15.5.2482

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