Analysis of rat repetitive DNA sequences
- PMID: 201284
- DOI: 10.1021/bi00594a008
Analysis of rat repetitive DNA sequences
Abstract
Parameters of repetitive sequence organization have been measured in the rat genome. Experiments using melting, hydroxylapatite binding, and single strand specific nuclease digestion have been used to measure the number, length, and arrangement of repeated DNA sequences. Renaturation and melting or S1 nuclease digestion of 1.0 kbp DNA fragment show about 20% of rat DNA sequences are 3000-fold repeated. Renatured duplexes from 4.0 kbp DNA fragments display two repetitive size fractions after nuclease digestion. About 60% of the repeated sequences are 0.2-0.4 kbp long while the remainder are longer than 1.5 kbp. The arrangement of the repeated sequences has been measured by hydroxylapatite fractionation of DNA fragments of varying lengths bearing a repeated sequence. Repeated DNA sequences are interspersed among 2.5 kbp long nonrepeated sequences throughout more than 70% of the rat genome. There are approximately 350 different 3000-fold short repeated sequences in the rat interspersed among 600,000 nonrepeated DNA sequences.
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