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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2011;745:15–31. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-129-1_2

Fig. 2.1.

Fig. 2.1

PFGE-shift of circular chromosomes broken by IR-induced random DSBs. Nocodazole-arrested G2/M rad52Δ cells were irradiated with 80 krads, and post-IR incubation was done in YPDA medium. Cells were collected and prepared at the indicated times. Plug preparation and CHEF parameters are described in text. Chr III was detected by a probe targeting the CHA1 gene. The circular (unbroken) form of Chr III is trapped in the well during PFGE. A single random DSB results in full-length linearized Chr III molecules that can migrate out of the well, forming a unique 300 kb band. The PFGE-shifted DNA corresponding to resected DNA reaches a plateau with “apparent” size of 430 kb. (This image is from 19.)