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. 1985 Mar;5(3):563–568. doi: 10.1128/mcb.5.3.563

Cloned mouse DNA fragments can replicate in a simian virus 40 T antigen-dependent system in vivo and in vitro.

H Ariga, Z Tsuchihashi, M Naruto, M Yamada
PMCID: PMC366749  PMID: 2985958

Abstract

Mouse liver DNA was cut out with BamHI and cloned into YIp5, which contained the URA3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in pBR322. Of the several plasmids isolated, two plasmids, pMU65 and pMU111, could transform S. cerevisiae from the URA- to the URA+ phenotype and could replicate autonomously within the transformant, indicating that mouse DNA fragments present in pMU65 or pMU111 contain autonomously replicating sequences (ARS) for replication in S. cerevisiae. Furthermore, to determine the correlation between ARS function in yeast cells and that in much higher organisms, we tried to challenge these plasmids with the simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA replication system. Of the two plasmids tested, the EcoRI-BglII region of pMU65 could be hybridized with a chemically synthesized 13-nucleotide fragment corresponding to the origin region of SV40 DNA. Both pMU65 (the EcoRI-BglII region cloned in pBR322) and its subclone pMU65EB could replicate semiconservatively, and initiation of DNA replication started from the EcoRI-BglII region when the replicating activity of these plasmids was tested in the in vitro SV40 DNA replication system we have established before. Furthermore, pMU65 and pMU65EB could replicate autonomously within monkey Cos cells which produce SV40 T antigen constitutively. These results show that a 2.5-kilobase fragment of the EcoRI-BglII region in pMU65 contains the ARS needed for replication in the SV40 DNA replication system.

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