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SUBMITTER: Bedoya F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2730422 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bedoya Felipe F Medveczky Maria M MM Lund Troy C TC Perl Andras A Horvath Joseph J Jett Stephen D SD Medveczky Peter G PG
Leukemia research 20090411 11
Since most oncogenic viruses persist as extrachromosomal covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) in tumor cells, we developed an assay to visualize and identify cccDNA in primary lymphomas. We identified concatemers of the mitochondrial genome in all samples analyzed, but not in normal lymphocytes. One AIDS-associated lymphoma (EL) was further studied in detail as its mitochondrial genome consisted of tandem head-to-tail duplications. Insertion of C-residues was noted near the origin of replicat ...[more]