Replication of Bacteriophage Ribonucleic Acid: Some Properties of Native and Denatured Replicative Intermediate
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 1 (3), 514-522
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.1.3.514-522.1967
Abstract
Purified replicative form (RF) and replicative intermediate (RI) prepared from Escherichia coli cells infected with the ribonucleic acid (RNA) bacteriophage R17 were denatured with dimethyl sulfoxide at 37 C or in aqueous solvents of low ionic strength at 97 C. Denaturation was demonstrated for RF and RI by an increase in specific infectivity and a striking change in the hyperchromicity curves after treatment. RI denaturation was also demonstrated by a shift in the buoyant density in Cs2SO4 from 1.619 to the buoyant density of single-stranded R17 RNA (1.627). Analysis of the denatured RI hyperchromicity curves and the equilibrium distributions of denatured RI in Cs2SO4 gradients revealed, however, a residual double-stranded component. Velocity sedimentation of denatured RI was performed, and the weight distribution of S values was calculated. From the known relation between molecular weight and S values, it was possible to transform the weight distribution into a number distribution of chain lengths. This distribution was compared with that predicted from the steady-state hypothesis for RI. Deviations from the predicted distribution may be due to the residual double-stranded component.Keywords
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