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. 1966 Dec 1;31(3):577–583. doi: 10.1083/jcb.31.3.577

LIMITED DNA SYNTHESIS IN THE ABSENCE OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM

J E Cummins 1, H P Rusch 1
PMCID: PMC2107062  PMID: 4226393

Abstract

Actidione (cycloheximide), an antibiotic inhibitor of protein synthesis, blocked the incorporation of leucine and lysine during the S phase of Physarum polycephalum. Actidione added during the early prophase period in which mitosis is blocked totally inhibited the initiation of DNA synthesis. Actidione treatment in late prophase, which permitted mitosis in the absence of protein synthesis, permitted initiation of a round of DNA replication making up between 20 and 30% of the unreplicated nuclear DNA. Actidione treatment during the S phase permitted a round of replication similar to the effect at the beginning of S. The DNA synthesized in the presence of actidione was replicated semiconservatively and was stable through at least the mitosis following antibiotic removal. Experiments in which fluorodeoxyuridine inhibition was followed by thymidine reversal in the presence of actidione suggest that the early rounds of DNA replication must be completed before later rounds are initiated.

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