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Work in our lab is supported by CAREER award MCB0551798 from the National Science Foundation and AREA grant R15GM86839 from the NIGMS-NIH.

1. Growth and UV Irradiation.
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	<li>200&mu;l of a fresh overnight culture containing the plasmid pBR322 grown in Davis medium1 supplemented with 0.4% glucose, 0.2% casamino acids, and 10 &mu;g/ml thymine (DGCthy medium) and 100 &mu;g/ml ampicillin is pelleted. The cell pellet is then resuspended in 200&mu;l DGCthy medium lacking ampicillin and used to inoculate 20 ml of DGCthy medium.</li>
	<li>Cultures are grown without ampicillin selection in a shaking incubator at 37&deg; C to an OD600 o...

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Typical results obtained from wild type cells in the presence and absence of UV-induced damage are shown in Figure 1. In the absence of damage, ~1% of the total plasmid DNA can be found in the Y arc when cells are rapidly growing in exponential phase. Following irradiation, a transient increase in Y shaped molecules is observed as blocked replication forks accumulate at damaged sites. The X-shaped replication intermediates also transiently accumulate and persist until a time that correlates with when the lesions are rep...

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visualization of uv-induced replication intermediates in e. coli using two-dimensional agarose-gel analysis

Inaccurate replication in the presence of DNA damage is responsible for the majority of cellular rearrangements and mutagenesis observed in all cell types and is widely believed to be directly associated with the development of cancer in humans. DNA damage, such as that induced by UV irradiation, severely impairs the ability of replication to duplicate the genomic template accurately. A number of gene products have been identified that are required when replication encounters DNA lesions in the template. However, a remaining challenge has been to determine how these proteins process lesions during replication in vivo. Using Escherichia coli as a model system, we describe a procedure in which two-dimensional agarose-gel analysis can be used to identify the structural intermediates that arise on replicating plasmids in vivo following UV-induced DNA damage. This procedure has been used to demonstrate that replication forks blocked by UV-induced damage undergo a transient reversal that is stabilized by RecA and several gene products associated with the RecF pathway. The technique demonstrates that these replication intermediates are maintained until a time that correlates with the removal of the lesions by nucleotide excision repair and replication resumes.

Watch this Scientific Journal Video about Visualization of UV-induced Replication Intermediates in E. coli using Two-dimensional Agarose-gel Analysis at JoVE.com

Visualization of UV-induced Replication Intermediates in E. coli using Two-dimensional Agarose-gel Analysis

We present a procedure by which two-dimensional agarose-gel analysis can be used to identify the structure of replication intermediates that occur following UV irradiation.

Visualization of UV-induced Replication Intermediates in E. coli using Two-dimensional Agarose-gel Analysis

Inaccurate replication in the presence of DNA damage is responsible for the majority of cellular rearrangements and mutagenesis observed in all cell types ...

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