scholarly journals Abnormal DNA Patterns in Animal Mitochondria: Ethidium Bromide-Induced Breakdown of Closed Circular DNA and Conditions Leading to Oligomer Accumulation

1970 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 1926-1933 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. K. Nass





1974 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence I. Grossman ◽  
Robert Watson ◽  
Jerome Vinograd




1973 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Richabdson ◽  
Stephen R. Pabker


Gene ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mårten Österlund ◽  
Holger Luthman ◽  
Stefan V. Nilsson ◽  
Göran Magnusson


2000 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z Topcu

This study investigates the contribution of deformational strain imposed by topological interconversions of DNA in ethidium bromide-binding on agarose gels. Closed-circular plasmid DNAs were nicked using UV exposure and the DNA bands were quantified by densitometry. The results show that the closed circular DNA binds the same amount of the dye as its nicked counterpart. The relationship between the band intensity on X-ray films of chemiluminescence-detected Southern blots and DNA concentration was shown to be linear.



1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 989-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenzo Kato ◽  
Klaus D. Radsak ◽  
Hilary Koprowski

The effect of ethidium bromide (EB) on the synthesis of circular DNA of mammalian cells was studied by isopycnic centrifugation in a CsCl-EB solution. EB (0.1—0.5 μg/ml) interferes with the synthesis of newly-formed circular DNA of HeLa cell mitochondria and causes degradation of the pre-existing circular DNA, as well. Under the same conditions, nuclear DNA synthesis was not inhibited. This effect was not reversible at a concentration of 0.5 μg EB/ml or more. Cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) did not exhibit an effect similar to that of EB.



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