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  • Title: Bleomycin fragmentation of duplex DNA occurs as staggered single-strand scissions.
    Author: Lloyd RS, Haidle CW, Robberson DL.
    Journal: Gene; 1979 Nov; 7(3-4):303-16. PubMed ID: 93065.
    Abstract:
    Electron microscopy of purified full-length linear duplex molecules produced by bleomycin reaction with PM2 DNA revealed low frequencies of closed circular duplex molecules as well as linear duplex molecules with opposed ends (cyclized molecules which have dissociated to yield a gap between the termini). The occurrence of these latter forms indicates that double-strand scissions produced by bleomycin reaction consist of two single-strand scissions which are physically staggered on the complementary strands. Analysis of the temperature dependence for cyclization led to the estimate that an average of 1.7 +/- 0.44 base-pairs (2.6 +/- 0.5 base pairs without base-stacking energies) occur between the staggered breaks. The reassociated termini cannot be ligated with T4 ligase. When PM2 DNA was fragmented at several sites within each molecule, circular duplexes and linear duplexes with opposed ends with a range of sizes from 350 base pairs up to full-length PM2 DNA were observed. Analysis of the frequency distribution of lengths of these fragments indicates that most, if not all, of the specific sites for bleomycin-directed double-strand scissions in PM2 DNA contain representatives of the same two base single-stranded termini.
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