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A partially purified algal protein mixture which supports in vitro DNA replication consists of soluble proteins and proteins extracted from thylakoid membrane. The membrane extract is essential for the specific initiation of replication at a displacement loop (D-loop) site previously mapped by electron microscopy. D-loop site and its flanking sequences have been cloned and sequenced. In this study, fragment-retention assays using various subclones of the sequenced region indicate that some proteins in the membrane extract bind strongly and specifically with a 494 bp restriction fragment which partially overlaps the D-loop site. Protein gel analyses of the protein-DNA complex identify three DNA-binding polypeptides with apparent molecular weights of 18, 24 and 26 kDa, respectively. Treatment with chloramphenicol, an inhibitor of chloroplast protein synthesis, for 1 h has no obvious effect on the contents of the 24 or 26 kDa polypeptides but significantly reduces the content of the 18 kDa polypeptide in the membrane extract.
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Nie, Z.Q., Chang, D.Y. & Wu, M. Protein-DNA interaction within one cloned chloroplast DNA replication origin of Chlamydomonas . Molec Gen Genet 209, 265–269 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329652
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329652