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DNA synthesis was studied using purified wheat embryo mitochondria as well as mitochondrial lysates deprived of endogenous DNA. The optimal conditions for DNA synthesis are very similar in both systems: ATP stimulates dramatically mitochondrial DNA synthesis and magnesium is a better co-factor than manganese, contrary to what has been reported in animal mitochondrial systems. Wheat mitochondrial DNA synthesis is resistant to aphidicolin and strongly inhibited by dideoxythymidine triphosphate and ethidium bromide. Thus, the DNA polymerase involved in this system seems to be the same as that previously purified and characterized from wheat embryo mitochondria (Christopheet al., Plant Science Letters 21: 181, 1981). Two different approaches: restriction endonuclease digestion followed by electrophoresis, and autoradiography and cesium chloride equilibrium centrifugation of mitochondrial DNA, where BrdUTP has been incorporated instead of TTP, show that long stretches of the mitochondrial genome have been synthesized.
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Ricard, B., Echeverria, M., Christophe, L. et al. DNA synthesis in isolated mitochondria and mitochondrial extracts from wheat embryos. Plant Mol Biol 2, 167–175 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578376
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