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Comparative Study
. 1984 Feb 24;12(4):1991-9.
doi: 10.1093/nar/12.4.1991.

DNA-protein interactions in the Drosophila virilis mitochondrial chromosome

M L Pardue, J M Fostel, T R Cech
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Comparative Study

DNA-protein interactions in the Drosophila virilis mitochondrial chromosome

M L Pardue et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .
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Abstract

The location of proteins on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Drosophila virilis was investigated by Me3 psoralen photoreaction of mitochondria isolated from embryos. After photoreaction the mtDNA was purified and the pattern of DNA cross-linking was determined by electron microscopy of the DNA under totally denaturing conditions. The transcribed regions of the mtDNA molecule contained some uncross-linked regions, but such regions were infrequent and randomly distributed. In contrast, the A + T-rich region around the origin of replication of the mtDNA was usually protected from psoralen cross-linking. The data were best fit by two protected sites, each approximately 400 base pairs, compared to the four 400 base pair sites observed in the equivalent region of D. melanogaster mtDNA [Potter et al. (1980) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 4118-4122]. Thus this region of the mtDNA appears to be involved in a DNA-protein structure that is highly conserved even though the DNA sequence has diverged rapidly relative to protein-coding sequences.

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