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XB-ART-31976
Nucleic Acids Res 1978 Jun 01;56:2211-22.
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Preparation and isolation of covalently closed circular rDNA molecules from DNA of Xenopus laevis.

Polito LC , Spadari S .


Abstract
We describe a method leading to the formation of closed circles of rDNA starting from total DNA of Xenopus laevis. Linear DNA molecules were digested with exonuclease 3 and self-annealed. Open circles were enriched and covalently closed by the simultaneous use of polynucleotide kinase, DNA polymerase and polynucleotide ligase. Closed circles of rDNA1 were shown to be alkali-resistant, to have higher density than linear molecules in cesium chloride density gradients containing ethydium bromide, and to have the sedimentation constant expected for a single repeat unit of rDNA comprehensive of its spacer.

PubMed ID: 673851
PMC ID: PMC342154
Article link: Nucleic Acids Res



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