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J Virol. 1973 September; 12(3): 600-608
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Hydroxyurea-Induced Accumulation of Short Fragments During Polyoma DNA Replication I. Characterization of Fragments

Medical Nobel Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

ABSTRACT

Hydroxyurea treatment of 3T6 mouse fibroblast cells infected with polyoma virus resulted within 15 min in more than a 20-fold reduction of the rate of both viral and cellular DNA synthesis. After the initial rapid inhibition, the rate of DNA synthesis remained essentially constant for at least 2 h. In the inhibited cells viral DNA accumulated as short chains with a sedimentation coefficient of about 4S (hydroxyurea fragments). A variable proportion of these fragments was released from the template strands when the viral DNA was extracted by the Hirt procedure. Reannealing experiments demonstrated that hydroxyurea fragments were polyoma-specific and probably synthesized on both parental strands at the replication forks.