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We have noted previously that when circular, but not linear, DNA or chromatin was injected into Xenopus laevis oocytes, much of it went through an intermediate form in which it did not readily enter an agarose gel; after a few hours, it reappeared as monomer DNA that had acquired its full complement of nucleosomes (T. J. Miller and J. E. Mertz, Mol. Cell. Biol. 2:1581-1593, 1982). We determined, using electron microscopy and a variety of biochemical techniques, the structure of this aggregated material. Most of it was oligomeric and multimeric catenanes of the injected sample. In addition, injection of DNA that had been catenated in vitro with DNA gyrase resulted in the conversion of most of it back to monomer circles. These findings demonstrate directly that both catenation and decatenation of DNA occur in vivo under physiological conditions. Whether these reactions play a crucial role in nucleosome formation, as well as in DNA replication and recombination, remains to be determined.
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