Nucleic Acids Research, 1983, Vol. 11, No. 20 6997-7009
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Satellite DNA from Xenopus laevis: comparative analysis of 745 and 1037 base pair Hind III tandem repeats
Institut für Molekularbiologie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 22, D-1000 Berlin 33, FRG
Received July 18, 1983. Accepted August 30, 1983.
Highly repetitive Hind III restriction fragaents of 0.720.76 KBP from total Xenopus laevis genoaic DNA are organized in a tandem like arrangement. Cloning of theme fragments in pBR 322 with subaequent remtriction site mapping and nucleotide sequence analysis of some selected clones showed two different types of sequences. 2530% of material represent the oocyte specific 5 S DNA repeat units, 7075% are similar to the recently described repeat elements of satellite 1 DNA. Hybridization of a genoaic DNA library to such a 745 BP monomeric repeat unit and investigation of some clones with positive autoradiographic signals revealed structural heterogeneities of repeat elements, in that the 745 BP sequence cross-hybridized with 1037 BP Hind III repeat units. Nucleotide sequence analysis demonstrated that the two types of sequences show a homology of 84.3% and that the 1037 BP sequence additionally contains duplicated elements of the 745 BP sequence as well as apparently unrelated DNA sequences.
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