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. 1988 May;8(5):2149–2158. doi: 10.1128/mcb.8.5.2149

Replication program of active and inactive multigene families in mammalian cells.

K S Hatton 1, V Dhar 1, E H Brown 1, M A Iqbal 1, S Stuart 1, V T Didamo 1, C L Schildkraut 1
PMCID: PMC363396  PMID: 3386634

Abstract

In a comprehensive study, the temporal replication of tissue-specific genes and flanking sequences was compared in nine cell lines exhibiting different tissue-specific functions. Some of the rules we have determined for the replication of these tissue specific genes include the following. (i) Actively transcribed genes usually replicate during the first quarter of the S phase. (ii) Some immunoglobulin genes replicate during the first half of S phase even when no transcriptional activity is detected but appear to replicate even earlier in cell lines where they are transcribed. (iii) Nontranscribed genes can replicate during any interval of S phase. (iv) Multigene families arranged in clusters of 250 kilobases or less define a temporal compartment comprising approximately one-quarter of S phase. While these rules, and others that are discussed, apply to the tissue-specific genes studied here, all tissue-specific genes may not follow this pattern. In addition, housekeeping genes did not follow some of these rules. These results provide the first molecular evidence that the coordinate timing of replication of contiguous sequences within a multigene family is a general property of the mammalian genome. The relationship between replication very early during S phase and the transcriptional activity within a chromosomal domain is discussed.

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