Mechanism of Intramolecular recyclizatlon and deletion formation following transformation ofEscherichia coliwith linearized plasmid DNA
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- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 14 (22), 8919-8932
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/14.22.8919
Abstract
The deletion end-points of a number of type I (+ or recA− E.coli with linear pBR322 DNA were determined by DNA sequencing. In both monodirectional and bidirectional deletions the recyclization point was normally characterized by recombination between directly repeated sequences of between 4 and 10 bp present on each arm of the linearized pBR322 molecule. Frequently, short tracts of uninterrupted homology involved in recombinational recircularization were embedded in regions of relative non-homology. A model predicting the probability of matching sequences in either end of a linear plasmid molecule is presented. It is proposed that exonucleolytic processing of the exposed termini of linear plasmid molecules generates substrates for subsequent recombinational recyclization and deletion. The activity of host recorubination and repair functions in recircularizing linear DNA molecules explains the generation of many of the aberrant recombinant DNA constructs obtained during gene cloning procedures.Keywords
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