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Small DNA viruses have been historically used as probes of cellular control mechanisms of DNA replication, gene expression, and differentiation. Polyomavirus (Py) DNA replication is known to be linked to differentiation of may cells, including myoblasts. In this report, we use this linkage in myoblasts to simultaneously examine (i) cellular differentiation control of Py DNA replication and (ii) an unusual type of cellular and Py DNA synthesis during differentiation. Early proposals that DNA synthesis was involved in the induced differentiation of myoblasts to myotubes were apparently disproved by reliance on inhibitors of DNA synthesis (cytosine arabinoside and aphidicolin), which indicated that mitosis and DNA replication are not necessary for differentiation. Theoretical problems with the accessibility of inactive chromatin to trans-acting factors led us to reexamine possible involvement of DNA replication in myoblast differentiation. We show here that Py undergoes novel aphidicolin-resistant net DNA synthesis under specific conditions early in induced differentiation of myoblasts (following delayed aphidicolin addition). Under similar conditions, we also examined uninfected myoblast DNA synthesis, and we show that soon after differentiation induction, a period of aphidicolin-resistant cellular DNA synthesis can also be observed. This drug-resistant DNA synthesis appears to be subgenomic, not contributing to mitosis, and more representative of polyadenylated than of nonpolyadenylated RNA. These results renew the possibility that DNA synthesis plays a role in myoblast differentiation and suggest that the linkage of Py DNA synthesis to differentiation may involve a qualitative cellular alteration in Py DNA replication.
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