Nucleic Acids Research, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 5 1233-1242
© 1990
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Autonomous replication of a DNA fragment containing the chromosomal replication origin of the human c-myc gene
Department of Biochemistry, Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed
Received November 3, 1989. Revised December 11, 1989. Accepted December 11, 1989.
The c-myc genes of HeLa cells are preferentially replicated in the transcriptional direction, from chromosomal origin sequences which display cell type-specific activity. Using a run-off replication assay involving in vitro extension of replication forks initiated in intact HeLa cells, bidirectional replication was observed to begin within a 3.5 kb domain 5' to the c-myc gene. To characterize the replication origin further a 2.4 Hindlll-Xhol subfragment of the c-myc 5' flanking DNA was cloned in a selectable vector and transfected into HeLa cells. The resulting pNeo.Myc-2.4 construct persisted as a circular extrachromosomal element for more than 300 cell generations under selection, with recovery of approximately 500–1000 times the mass of plasmid initially introduced into the cells. Extrachromosomal circular pNeo.Myc-2.4 monomer was reisolated in supercoiled form, along with oligomeric and miniplasmid variants which had been generated in vivo; however, chromosomally integrated copies of the plasmid were not detectable in cultures containing extrachromosomal pNeo.Myc-2.4. The recovered pNeo.Myc-2.4 plasmid was resistant to Dpnl digestion and sensitive to Mbol digestion. After transfection with pNeo.Myc-2.4 BrUdR pulse labeling of long-term or short-term cultures demonstrated that the plasmid replicated semiconservatively, under controls similar to those imposed on chromosome replication. Bisection of the pNeo.Myc-2.4 insert suggested that c-myc 5' flanking DNA within 1.2 kb 5' to promoter P1 was sufficient to confer autonomously replicating sequence activity on the plasmid vector In transient replication assays.
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