Mooibroek H, van Randen J, Venema G
J Bacteriol. 1982 Nov;152(2):669-75. doi: 10.1128/jb.152.2.669-675.1982.
When recipient Bacillus subtilis carrying chromosomal trimethylpsoralen cross-links were transformed, the donor marker activity decreased with the extent of cross-linking. Additional donor marker activity was lost upon incubation of the reextracted DNA with nuclease S1, particularly at higher levels of cross-linking. Physical analysis of the reextracted DNA showed that the donor DNA was progressively excluded from heteroduplex formation as the frequency of cross-links in the recipient DNA increased. In the donor-recipient complexes still being formed, increasing amounts of donor DNA became susceptible to nuclease S1 digestion under these conditions. These results suggest that resident interstrand cross-links interfere both with initiation of recombination and with the completion of heteroduplex formation.
当携带染色体三甲基补骨脂素交联的受体枯草芽孢杆菌被转化时,供体标记活性随交联程度的增加而降低。重新提取的DNA与核酸酶S1孵育后,额外的供体标记活性丧失,尤其是在较高交联水平时。对重新提取的DNA进行物理分析表明,随着受体DNA中交联频率的增加,供体DNA逐渐被排除在异源双链体形成之外。在仍在形成的供体-受体复合物中,在这些条件下,越来越多的供体DNA变得易受核酸酶S1消化。这些结果表明,常驻链间交联既干扰重组的起始,也干扰异源双链体形成的完成。