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. 1985 Oct;56(1):293–297. doi: 10.1128/jvi.56.1.293-297.1985

Formation of a cruciform structure at the simian virus 40 replication origin abolishes T-antigen binding to the origin in vitro.

D G Tenen, L L Haines, U M Hansen, R G Martin, D M Livingston
PMCID: PMC252527  PMID: 2993657

Abstract

Heteroduplex DNA molecules were formed by annealing an intact simian virus replication origin-containing fragment to a mutant derivative lacking the indigenous wild-type 27-base-pair (bp) inverted repeat within this structure and containing a nonhomologous 26-bp inverted repeat sequence in its place. Results of restriction enzyme and S1 endonuclease cleavage analyses strongly suggested that a 13-bp stem-loop structure formed at the site of nonhomology between these two DNAs. This structure lies within the boundary of simian virus 40 T-antigen-binding site 2, and its presence inhibited T-antigen binding to that sequence but not to an adjacent higher-affinity binding site (site 1). Therefore, the conformation of sequences within an otherwise intact T-antigen-binding site can have major effects upon T-antigen binding there.

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