期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1972
卷号：69
期号：9
页码：2391-2395
DOI：10.1073/pnas.69.9.2391
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：A unique form of terminal redundancy has been observed in DNA molecules extracted from several human adenovirus serotypes. Electron microscopic studies reveal that single-stranded circular molecules are formed when native DNA is denatured and then annealed. Temperatures approaching the Tm of native DNA are required to convert circles to linear molecules, indicating a high degree of self-complementarity between terminal base sequences of DNA strands. Single-stranded circles are not generated if a limited number of nucleotides (2-4%) are removed from the 3' ends of native DNA by digestion with Escherichia coli exonuclease III before denaturation and annealing. The lenght of the redundant segment appears to differ among major serotypic groups, and a possible association between increased length of the redundant segment and increased oncogenic capability of virus serotype is suggested. Evidence for the configuration of the duplex closure region of circular molecules is also presented.
关键词：circular molecules ; self-annealing ; exonuclease ; electron microscopy
