Affiliation:
1. Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10021
Abstract
The annealing properties as measured by the restoration of transforming activity and hypochromicity of methylated albumin-kieselguhr (MAK)-fractionated complementary strands of
Bacillus subtilis
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are presented. Temperature-absorbance measurements performed on annealed mixtures of various L and H strand fractions indicated the existence of a complementarity gradient between the two MAK peaks. The markers
purA16, leu-8, metB
5
,
thr-5
, and the linked marker
hisB
2
-
try-2
exhibited different bimodal distributions on MAK columns. The transforming efficiency of heteroduplex mixtures, prepared by cross-annealing resolved complementary strands of wild-type and recipient DNA, was compared. The transforming efficiency of the wild-type L and H strands was equal in one preparation and unequal in a second preparation. It was found that in the second strand preparation the heteroduplex DNA containing the H strand from wild type was more efficient for all of the markers tested. The variations in transforming efficiencies of the complementary strands in heteroduplex molecules reported here and by others are due in part to strands of unequal length and probably to the self-annealing property of the H strands. At present, no conclusion could be made regarding the existence of strand selection bias during integration of donor DNA in competent
B. subtilis
cells.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
2 articles.
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