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Six kinds of autonomously replicating sequences (ARSs) derived from Drosophila or tobacco were inserted into the vector pDSV, constructed with pSV2-gpt and the copia long terminal repeat (LTR). The resulting ARS-containing plasmids, pDSV-ARSs, were transfected into the cultured Drosophila cells of GM1 S1cl1. Most of the plasmids remained for about 2 weeks and some for about 1 month in these cells. The retention time of the plasmid was not directly correlated with autonomously replicating activity of ARSs detected in the yeast. Two plasmids, one carrying ARS of Drosophila nuclear DNA and the other carrying tobacco DNA, showed the longest retention time in transformed cells and replication was confirmed in these cells. Some of these long lived plasmids were recovered, however, as modified forms. Other plasmids had disappeared 1 month after transfection. Two months following transfection, none of plasmids were recovered but they were detected in nuclear DNA as the integrated form. The integration patterns in all the cells transformed by different kinds of ARS-containing plasmids were similar to each other, and to the distribution pattern of copia LTR in the genome. These results suggest that copia LTR sequences contained in the pDSV-ARSs may participate in the integration process of these plasmids into Drosophila DNA.
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Kurata, N., Marunouchi, T. Retention of autonomous replicating plasmids in cultured Drosophila cells. Mol Gen Genet 213, 359–363 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339603
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