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The replication of plastid minicircles involves rolling circle intermediates.


ABSTRACT: Plastid genomes of peridinin-containing dinoflagellates are unique in that its genes are found on multiple circular DNA molecules known as 'minicircles' of approximately 2-3 kb in size, carrying from one to three genes. The non-coding regions (NCRs) of these minicircles share a conserved core region (250-500 bp) that are AT-rich and have several inverted or direct repeats. Southern blot analysis using an NCR probe, after resolving a dinoflagellate whole DNA extract in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), revealed additional positive bands (APBs) of 6-8 kb in size. APBs preferentially diminished from cells treated with the DNA-replication inhibitor aphidicolin, when compared with 2-3 kb minicircles, implicating they are not large minicircles. The APBs are also exonuclease III-sensitive, implicating the presence of linear DNA. These properties and the migration pattern of the APBs in a 2D-gel electrophoresis were in agreement with a rolling circle type of replication, rather than the bubble-forming type. Atomic force microscopy of 6-8 kb DNA separated by PFGE revealed DNA intermediates with rolling circle shapes. Accumulating data thus supports the involvement of rolling circle intermediates in the replication of the minicircles.

SUBMITTER: Leung SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2665238 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The replication of plastid minicircles involves rolling circle intermediates.

Leung Siu Kai SK   Wong Joseph T Y JT  

Nucleic acids research 20090210 6


Plastid genomes of peridinin-containing dinoflagellates are unique in that its genes are found on multiple circular DNA molecules known as 'minicircles' of approximately 2-3 kb in size, carrying from one to three genes. The non-coding regions (NCRs) of these minicircles share a conserved core region (250-500 bp) that are AT-rich and have several inverted or direct repeats. Southern blot analysis using an NCR probe, after resolving a dinoflagellate whole DNA extract in pulsed-field gel electropho  ...[more]

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