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. 1981 Apr;38(1):249–255. doi: 10.1128/jvi.38.1.249-255.1981

Cellular location of Mu DNA replicas.

M L Pato, B T Waggoner
PMCID: PMC171146  PMID: 6454005

Abstract

To ascertain the form and cellular location of the copies of bacteriophage Mu DNA synthesized during lytic development, DNA from an Escherichia coli lysogen was isolated at intervals after induction of the Mu prophage. Host chromosomes were isolated as intact, folded nucleoids, which could be digested with ribonuclease or heated in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate to yield intact, unfolded nucleoid DNA. Almost all of the Mu DNA in induced cells was associated with the nucleoids until shortly before cell lysis, even after unfolding of the nucleoid structure. We suggest that the replicas of Mu DNA are integrated into the host chromosomes, possibly by concerted replication-integration events, and are accumulated there until packaged shortly before cell lysis. Nucleoids also were isolated from induced lambda lysogens and from cells containing plasmid DNA. Most of the plasmid DNA sedimented independently of the unfolded nucleoid DNA, whereas 50% or more of the lambda DNA from induced lysogens cosedimented with unfolded nucleoid DNA. Possible explanations for the association of extrachromosomal DNA with nucleoid DNA are discussed.

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