Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
XLIII: DNA: Replication and Recombination
1978
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1978




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DNA: Replication and Recombination

Symposium Volume XLIII Contents

PART 1

Symposium Participants    v

Foreword    xv



Introduction

Aspects of DNA Replication A. Kornberg    1



DNA Unwinding

Structural and Energetic Considerations of Wave Propagation in DNA H. M Sobell, E. D. Lozansky, and M Lessen    11

Gene-V Product of Bacteriophage fd: Structure of a DNA-unwinding Protein and Its Complexes with DNA A. McPherson, F Jumak, A. Wang, F. Kolpak, I. Molineux, and A. Rich    21

DNA: Bihelical Structure, Supercoiling, and Relaxation J. C. Wang    29

DNA Gyrase and DNA Supercoiling M. Gellert, K. Mizuuchi, M. H. O'Dea, H. Ohmori, and J. Tomizawa    35

Structure and Activities of Escherichia coli DNA Gyrase C. L. Peebles, N. P. Higgins, K. N. Kreuzer, A. Morrison, P. O. Brown, A. Sugino, and N. R. Cozzarelli    41

Studies on the Regulation and Specificity of the DNA-untwisting Enzyme J. J. Champoux, L. S. Young, and M D. Been    53

Gene-II Protein of Bacteriophage fd in Enzymatic Replication of Viral Duplex DNA K. Geider and T. F. Meyer    59

DNA Helicases B. Kuhn, M Abdel-Monem, and H. Hoffmann-Berling    63



Replication Origins

Genetic and Physical Studies on the Replication of ColE1-type Plasmids K. Back- man, M Betlach, H. W. Boyer, and S. Yanofsky    69

Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the Escherichia coli Plasmid pBR322 J. G. Sutcliffe    77

Plasmid DNA Replication: RK2- and R6K-encoded Trans-acting Factors and Their Sites of Action R.. Kolter, M. Inuzuka, D. Figurski, C. Thomas, D. Stalker, and D. R.. Helinski    91

Essential Regions for Replication of a Stringent and a Relaxed Plasmid in Escherichia coli M. L. Kahn, D. Figurski, L. Ito, and D. R.. Helinski    99

Plasmid-encoded Functions Involved in the Replication and Inheritance of Antibiotic- resistance Plasmid R6-5 K. N. Timmis, I. Andrés, P. M. Slocombe, and R.. M. Synenki    105

Use of Autonomously Replicating Mini-R6K Plasmids in the Analysis of the Replica- tion Regions of the R Plasmid R6K J. H. Crosa, L. K. Luttropp, and S. Falkow    111

Origin of Replication, oriC, of the Escherichia coli K12 Chromosome: Genetic Mapping and Minichromosome Replication K. von Meyenburg, F. G. Hansen, F. Ruse, H. E. N. Bergmans, M. Meijer, and W. Messer    121

Structural and Functional Properties of the Escherichia coli Origin of DNA Replication Y. Hirota, S. Yasuda, M. Yamada, A. Nishimura, K. Sugimoto, H. Sugisaki, A. Oka, and M Takanami    129

Origin of Replication, oriC, of the Escherichia coli K12 Chromosome: Nucleotide Sequence W. Messer, M Meijer, H. F. N. Bergmans, F. G. Hansen, K. von Meyenburg, F. Beck, and H. Schaller    139

Positive and Negative Control of Bacteriophage Lambda DNA Replication M E. Furth, J. L. Yates, and W. F. Dove    147

Dissection and Comparative Anatomy of the Origins of Replication of Lambdoid Phages D. D. Moore, K. Denniston-Thompson, K. E. Kruger, M. E. Furth, B. G. Williams, D. L. Daniels, and F R. Blattner    155

Functional Analysis of the Replicator Structure of Lambdoid Bacteriophage DNAs G. Hobom, R. Grosschede, M. Lusky, G. Scherer, E. Schwarz. and H. Kössel    165

Nucleotide Sequence of a Fragment of HeLa-cell Mitochondrial DNA Containing the Precisely Localized Origin of Replication G. Attardi, S. T. Crews, J. Nishiguchi, D. K. Ojala, and J. W. Posakony    179

Cloning and Characterization of the Replication Origin from Rat Mitochondrial DNA K. Koike, M. Kobayashi, and T. Sekiya    193



Priming and Okazaki Fragments

Structure and Metabolism of the RNA Primer in the Discontinuous Replication of Prokaryotic DNA T. Okazaki, Y. Kurosawa, T. Ogawa, T. Seki, K. Shinozaki, S. Hirose, A. Fujiyama, Y. Kohara, Y. Machida, F. Tamanoi, and T. Hozumi    203

Excision-Repair of Uracil in DNA: Its Implications for the Discontinuous Replication of DNA In Vivo and In Vitro I. R.. Lehman, B.-K. Tye, and P.-O. Nyman    221

Formation of Okazaki Pieces at the Escherichia coli Replication Fork In Vitro K. R.. Thomas, P. Manlapaz-Ramos, R.. Lundquist, and B. M. Olivera    231

Uracil Incorporation into Nascent DNA of Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli F Tamanoi, Y. Machida, and T. Okazaki    239

Evidence for Many Nonnascent DNA Molecules the Size of Okazaki Fragments in Escherichia coli and 3T3 Cells: Very Few Have 5¢-Terminal Ribonucleotides D. T. Denhardt, J. Kowaiski, and C. Miyamoto    243

Replication of Mouse L-cell Mitochondrial DNA D. Bogenhagen, A. M. Gillum, P. A. Martens, and D. A. Clayton    253

Studies on Early Intermediates in the Synthesis of DNA in Animal Cells B. Y Tseng, R.. H. Grafstrom, D. Revie, W. Oertel, and M. Goulian    263

Synthesis and Function of Polyoma Initiator RNA P. Reichard and R.. Eliasson    271

Characterization of the 5¢ Ends of Nascent DNA Chains R.. Werner, D. W. Siegmann, A. T. Diaz, and H. Jering    279



Replication of Small Phages and Plasmids

Enzymatic Conversion of Single-stranded f Xl74 and G4 Circles to Duplex Forms: Discontinuous Replication R.. R.. Meyer, J. Shlomai, J. Kobori, D. L. Bates, L. Rowen, R. McMacken, K. Ueda, and A. Kornberg    289

Enzymatic Replication of f X174 Duplex Circles: Continuous Synthesis S. Eisenberg, J. F. Scott. and A. Kornberg    295

DNA Replication Proteins of Escherichia coli and Phage l S. H. Wickner    303

Replication of f X174 DNA: In Vitro Synthesis of f X RFI DNA and Circular, Single-stranded DNA C. Sumida-Yasumoto, J.-E. Ikeda, E. Benz, K. J. Marians, R.. Vicuna, S. Sugrue, S. L. Zipursky, and J. Hurwitz    311

Cleavage Site of f X174 Gene-A Protein in f X and G4 RFI DNA A. D. M. van Mansfeld, S. A. Langeveld, P. J. Weisbeek, P. D. Baas, G. A. van Arkel, and H. S. Jansz    331

The rep Protein of Escherichia coli: Interaction with DNA and Other Proteins M. Duguet. G. Yarranton, and M. Gefter    335

DNA-dependent ATPases from Escherichia coli K12 F. Richet, 1. Moreau, and M Kohiyama    345

Single-stranded Phage Replication: Positive- and Negative-strand DNA Synthesis J. Sims, K. Koths, and D. Dressier    349 G4 DNA Replication In Vivo and the Origins of Its Strand Synthesis G. N. Godson    367

Nucleotide Sequence of the Origin for Bacteriophage M13 DNA Replication S. V. Suggs and D. S. Ray    379

DNA Replication of Bacteriophage fi In Vivo K. Horiuchi, J. V. Ravetch, and D. Zinder    389

The Intergenic Region and the Origins for Filamentous Phage DNA Replication H. Schaller    401

Initiation of Replication of Plasmid CoIEl DNA by RNA Polymerase, Ribonuclease H, and DNA Polymerase I T. Itoh and J. Tomizawa    409

DNA Replication Control: Studies of Plasmid Ri P. Gustafsson, H. Dreisig, S. Molin, K. Nordström, and B. Uhlin    419



Replication of Large Phages and Bacteria

Replication of Bacteriophage T7 DNA by Purified Proteins C. C. Richardson, L. J. Romano, R.. Kolodner, J. E. LeClerc, F. Tamanoi, M. J. Engler, F. B. Dean, and D. S. Richardson    427

Cloning of the T7 Genome in Escherichia coli: Use of Recombination between Cloned Sequences and Bacteriophage T7 to Identify Genes Involved in Recombination and a Clone Containing the Origin of T7 DNA Replication J. L. Campbell, F. Tamanoi, C. C. Richardson, and F. W. Studier    441

Bacteriophage T7 DNA Primase: A Multifunctional Enzyme Involved in DNA Replication G. Hillenbrand, G. Morelli, F. Lanka, and F. Scherzinger    449

Cross-reactivation and Partial Replication of UV-irradiated T7+ DNA K. B. Burck, D. M. Taylor, H W Smith, and R.. C. Miller, Jr. Probing DNA Replication Mechanisms with the T4 Bacteriophage In Vitro System C. C. Liu, R. L. Burke, U Hibner, J. Barry, and B. Alberts    469

DNA Replication by Bacteriophage T4 Proteins: Role of the DNA-delay Gene 61 in the Chain-initiation Reaction L. L. Silver and N. G. Nossal    489

Positive Regulation of T-even-phage DNA Replication by the DNA-delay Protein of Gene 39 W M Huang    495

In Vivo Interactions of Genes and Proteins in DNA Replication and Recombination of Phage T4 G. Mosig, A. Luder, G. Garcia, R.. Dannenberg, and S. Bock Late Replication and Recombination in the Vegetative Pool of T4 N. Hutchinson, T. Kazic, S. J. Lee, C. Rayssiguier, B. S. Emanuel, and W. Kozinski    517

f 29 DNA-Protein Complex and the Structure of Replicating DNA Molecules J. Ito, N. F. Harding, and K. Saigo    525

recA-Dependent DNA Replication in the Absence of Protein Synthesis: Characteris- tics of a Dominant Lethal Replication Mutation, dnaT, and Requirement for recA+ Function K. G. Lark and C. A. Lark    537

A dnaB-Analog DNA-replication Protein of Phage P1 H Schuster, F. Lanka, C Edelbluth, B. Geschke, M. Mikolajczyk, M Schlicht, and D. Touati-Schwartz    551

The Escherichia co/i dnaB Protein Is Required for Initiation of Chromosomal DNA Replication F. K. Fujimura, J. W. Zyskind, and D. W Smith    559

Chromosome Replication in Escherichia coli Is Inhibited in the Terminus Region Near the rac Locus P. L. Kuempel and S. A. Duerr    563

Organization of the Replication-origin Region of the Bacillus subtilis Chromosome H. Yoshikawa, K. Yamaguchi, M. Seiki, N. Ogasawara, and H. Toyoda    569



Replication of Eukaryotic DNA

Studies on the Prereplicative Phase of the Cell Cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae D. R. W. Edwards, J. B. Taylor, W. F Wakeling, F. Z. Watts, and I. R. Johnston    577

A Stimulatory Factor for Yeast DNA Polymerase L. M. S. Chang, K. Lurie, and P. Plevani    587

Eukaryotic DNA Replication: The First Steps toward a Multienzyme System from Xenopus laevis R. M Benbow, C. B. Breaux, H. Joenje, M. R. Krauss, R. W. Lennox, F. M. Nelson, N. S. Wang, and S. H. White    597

Two Cell-free Systems Constructed from Xenopus laevis Oocytes: Generalized Genetic Recombination; DNA Supercoiling G. P. Tocchini-Valentini, M. I. Baldi, G. Carrara, D. G. Attardi, and F. Mattoccia    603

Structural and Enzymological Properties of Human DNA Polymerases a and b D. Korn, P. A. Fisher, J. Battey, and T. S.-F. Wang    613

Functions of DNA Polymerases a, b, and g in Neurons during Development U. Hübscher, C. C. Kuenzle, W. Limacher, P. Scherrer, and S. Spadari    625

Studies on the Interaction of tRNA and Avian Myeloblastosis DNA Polymerase A. Araya and S. Litvak    631

Enhancement of the Rate of DNA Polymerase-a Activity on Duplex DNA by a DNA-binding Protein and a DNA-dependent ATPase of Mammalian Cells F Cobianchi, S. Riva, G. Mastromei, S. Spadari, G. Pedrali-Noy, and A. Falaschi    639

Diadenosine Tetraphosphate Triggers In Vitro DNA Replication F. Grummt    649



PART 2

Replication of Eukaryotic DNA Viruses

Protein-DNA Interactions at the Origin of Simian Virus 40 DNA Replication R. Tjian    655

Mutants of Simian Virus 40 with Base Substitutions at the Origin of DNA Replication D. Shortle and D. Nathans    663

Application of Site-directed Mutagenesis to RNA and DNA Genomes H. Weber, T. Taniguchi, W. Müller, F. Meyer, and C. Weissmann    669

Replication and Structure of Simian Virus 40 Chromosomes M. L. DePamphi/is, S. Anderson, R. Bar-Shavit, E. Collins, H. Edenberg, T Herman, B. Karas, G. Kaufmann, H. Krokan, F. Shelton, R. Su, D. Tapper, and P. M Wassarman    679

Association of Enzymes with Replicating and Nonreplicating Simian Virus 40 Chromosomes Y. Tsubota, M. A. Waqar, J. F. Burke, B. I. Milavetz, M. J. Evans, D. Kowalski, and J. A. Huberman    693

DNA Polymerases and a Single-strand-specific DNA-binding Protein Associated with Simian Virus 40 Nucleoprotein Complexes D. Otto, F. Fanning, and A. Richter    705

Studies on Simian Virus 40 Excision from Cellular Chromosomes M. Botchan, W. Topp, and J. Sambrook    709

The Structure of Replicating Adenovirus DNA Molecules: Characterization of DNA- Protein Complexes from Infected Cells T. J. Kelly, Jr. and R. L. Lechner    721

Replication of DNA in Adenovirus-infected Cells B. W. Stillman and A. J. D. Bellett    729

Detection of Covalent DNA-Protein Complexes: The Adenovirus DNA Terminal Protein Complex and HeLa DNA-Protein Complexes D. H. Coombs, A. J. Robinson, J. W. Bodnar, C. J. Jones, and G. D. Pearson    741

Adenovirus-2 DNA: In Vitro Replication and Analysis of Viral Early Proteins M. Green, M. Q. Arens, T. Yamashita, W. S. M. Wold, and K. H. Brackmann    755

Adenovirus DNA Replication in Soluble Extracts of Infected Cell Nuclei M. S. Horwitz, L. M. Kaplan, M. Abboud, J. Maritato, L. T. Chow, and T R. Broker    769

Adeno-associated Virus DNA Replication K. I. Berns, W. W. Hauswirth, K. H. Fife, and E. Lusby    781

Replication of Vaccinia DNA and Studies on the Structure of the Viral Chromo- some M. Esteban, M. Soloski, C. V. Cabrera, and J. A. Holowczak    789

Cell-free Synthesis of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA: Studies with Three Temperature- sensitive Mutants of HSV Type I B. Francke, D. R. Bone, and M. Strobel-Fidler    801

On the Structure, Functional Equivalence, and Replication of the Four Arrangements of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA B. Roizman, R.. J. Jacob, D. M. Knipe, L. S. Morse, and W. T. Ruyechan    809

Recombination in Herpes Simplex Virus: Mapping of Mutations and Analysis of Intertypic Recombinants N. M. Wilkie, A. Davison, P. Chartrand, N. D. Stow, V. G. Preston, and M. C. Timbury    827



Replication of RNA Tumor Viruses

In Vitro Studies of the Replication of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus W. A.. Haseltine and J. M. Coffin    841

Synthesis, Structure, and Integration of the DNA of RNA Tumor Viruses H. E. Varmus, P. R. Shank, S. E. Hughes, H.-J. Kung, S. Heasley, J. Majors, P. K. Vogt, and I. M. Bishop    851

Avian RNA Tumor Virus DNA before and after Integration into the Host Genome J. M. Taylor, W. S. Mason, T. W. Hsu, J. L. Sabran, C. Yeater, G. E. Mark, A. Kaji, R.. V. Guntaka, and M. M. C. Lai    865

Production of a Discrete, Infectious, Double-stranded DNA by Reverse Transcription in Vmons of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus D. Baltimore, E. Gilboa, E. Rothenberg, and F. Yoshimura    869

Integration and Possible Transduction by Retroviruses D. Steffen, P. Andersson, M. Goldfarb, and R.. A. Weinberg    875



Recombination Functions and Repair

Targeted and Untargeted Mutagenesis by Various Inducers of SOS Functions in Escherichia coli E. M. Witkin and I. E. Wermundsen    881

A Role for recF in Repair of UV Damage to DNA A. J. Clark, M. R. Volkert, and L. I Margossian    887

Mutagenesis- and Repair-enhancing Activities Associated with the Plasmid pKMl0l G. C. Walker    893

Molecular Events and Molecules That Lead to Induction of Prophage and SOS Functions M. Oishi, C. L. Smith, and B. Friefeld    897

Characteristics of Purified recA Protein and the Regulation of Its Synthesis In Vivo T. Ogawa, H. Wabiko, T. Tsurimoto, T. Horii, H. Masukata, and H. Ogawa    909

Activity of the Escherichia coli recA-gene Product J. W. Roberts, C. W. Roberts, N. L. Craig, and E. M. Phizicky    917

On the Fidelity of DNA Replication L. A. Loeb, L. A. Weymouth, T. A. Kunkel, K. P. Gopinathan, R. A. Beckman, and D. K. Dube    921

Characterization of a Mutator DNA Polymerase I from Salmonella typhimurium M. J. Engler and M. J. Bessman    929

Replicational Fidelity: Mechanisms of Mutation Avoidance and Mutation Fixation M. Radman, G. Villani, S. Boiteux, A. R.. Kinsella, B. W. Glickman, and S. Spadari    937

Nucleotide Excision Repair of Damaged DNA L. Grossman, S. Riazuddin, W. A.. Haseltine, and C. Lindan    947



General Recombination Branch Migration in Recombination R. C. Warner, R. A. Fishel, and F. C. Wheeler    957

DNA Recombination: In Vivo and In Vitro Studies H. Potter and D. Dressler    969

Enzymatic Cleavage of D Loops C. DasGupta, R. P. Cunningham, T. Shibata, and C M. Radding    987

Recombination in Hybrid ColEl DNAs As Analyzed by A-mediated Transduction K. Shimada, K. Umene, T. Nakamura, and Y. Takagi    991

Heteroduplex Regions in Unduplicated Bacteriophage A Recombinants M. S. Fox, C. S. Dudney, and E. J. Sodergren    999

recA-Mediated Recombination of Bacteriophage A: Structure of Recombinant and Intermediate DNA Molecules and Their Packaging In Vitro H. Ikeda and L. Kobayashi    1009

Pathways of Recombination of Bacteriophage T7 DNA In Vitro G. S. Roeder and P. D. Sadowski    1023

Recombination Intermediates Formed in the Extract from T7-infected Cells H. Ogawa, H. Araki, and Y. Tsujimoto    1033

Transduction versus "Conjuduction": Evidence for Multiple Roles for Exonuclease V in Genetic Recombination in Escherichia coli R. D. Porter, T. McLaughlin, and B. Low    1043

Mechanisms of Action of the Type-I Restriction Endonuclease, EcoB, and the recBC DNase from Escherichia coli .J. Rosamond, B. Endlich, K. M. Telander, and S. Linn    1049

A Special Type of UV-stimulated Recombination in Haemophilus influenzae E. Waldstein, J. K Setlow, and L. Santasier    1059

Chi D. K. Chattoraj, J. M. Crasemann, N Dower, D. Faulds, P. Faulds, R. E. Malone, F. W. Stahl, and M. M. Stahl    1063

Nucleotide-sequence Analysis of a Chi Site G. R. Smith, D. H. Faulds, and K. U. Sprague    1067

Plasmids Carrying oriC Can Integrate at or near the Chromosome Origin of Esch- erichia coli in the Absence of a Functional recA Product M. Masters, V. Andresdottir, and H. Wolf-Watz    1069

Early Steps in Genetic Recombination Induced by Damaged DNA: Cutting in trans in Escherichia coli and in Protein Extracts P. Howard-Flanders, E. Cassuto, and P. Ross    1073

Gene Duplication in Bacteria: Alteration of Gene Dosage by Sister-chromosome Exchanges R. P. Anderson and J. R. Roth    1083



Specialized Recombination of Phages A and Mu

Site-specific Recombination in Bacteriophage l: Structural Features of Recombining Sites A. Landy, R. H. Hoess, K. Bidwell, and W. Ross    1089

Integrative Recombination of Bacteriophage l: Requirement for Supertwisted DNA In Vivo and Characterization of mt Y. Kikuchi and H. Nash    1099

Integrative Recombination of Bacteriophage l: In Vitro Study of the Intermolecular Reaction K. Mizuuchi and M Mizuuchi    1111

The Role of l Integrase in Integration and Excision L. W. Enquist, A. Kikuchi, and R. A. Weisberg    1115

Site-specific Recombination of Bacteriophagel: The Role of Host Gene Products H. I. Miller, A. Kikuchi, H. A. Nash, R. A. Weisberg, and D. I. Friedman    1121

Regulatory Structure of the Insertion Region of Bacteriophage l L. Heffernan, M. Benedik, and A. Campbell    1127

Integration and Excision of Prophage l Mediated by the IS1 Element J. A. Shapiro and L. A. MacHattie    1135

Demonstration and Analysis of Pt Site-specific Recombination Using l-Pt Hybrid Phages Constructed In Vitro N. Steinberg    1143

Site-specific Recombination Leading to the Integration of Phages P1 and P7 R. H. Chesney, D. Vapnek, and J. R. Scott    1147

Integration of Bacteriophage Mu DNA E. Ljungquist, H. Khatoon, M. DuBow, L. Ambrosio, F. de Bruijn, and A. I. Bukhari    1151

Site-specific Recombination in Phage Mu D. Kamp, L. T. Chow, T. R. Broker, D. Kwoh, D. Zipser, and R. Kahmann    1159

Mini-Mu: An Insertion Element Derived from Temperate Phage Mu-1 M. Faelen, A. Resibois, and A. Toussaint    1169

Properties of the Recombinant Plasmid pGP1 Containing Part of the Early Region of Bacteriophage Mu M. Giphart-Gassler, T. Goosen, A. van Meeteren, C. Wijifel- man, and P. van de Putte    1179



Insertion Sequences and Transposons

Studies with IS1 and 1S4 H. Chad well, H.-J. Fritz, P. Habermann, R. Klaer, S. Kühn, and P. Starlinger    1187

DNA Sequence of IS2-7 and Generation of Mini-insertions by Replication of IS2 Sequences D. Ghosal, I. Gross, and H. Saedler    1193

Rearrangements of Genetic Material in Escherichia coli As Observed on the Bac- teriophage P1 Plasmid W. Arber, S. lada, H. Jütte, P. Caspers, J. Meyer, and C. Hänni    1197

Regional Specificity of Illegitimate Recombination Associated with the Translocatable Ampicillin-resistance Element Tn1 G. M Weinstock and D. Botstein    1209

A Transposon (Tn917) in Streptococcus faecalis That Exhibits Enhanced Transposition during Induction of Drug Resistance P. K. Tomich, F. Y. An, and D. B. Clewell    1217

Properties of an Autonomous r-Determinant from R100.1 M. Chandler, L. Silver, D. Lane, and L. Caro    1223

Translocation and Other Recombination Events Involving the Tetracycline-resistance Element Tn10 N. Kleckner and D. G. Ross    1233

Studies of the Specificity and Control of Transposition of the Tn3 Element S. N. Cohen, M. J Casadaban, J. Chou, and C.-P. D. Tu    1247 Sequence Analysis at IS1 Insertion Sites: Models for Transposition N. D. F. Grindley and D. J. Sherratt    1257

A Genetic and Sequencing Study of IS1 and Tn9 Insertions in the Escherichia coli lac Operon M. Cabs, L. Johnsrud, and J. H. Miller    1263

Nucleotide-sequence Analysis of TN3 (Ap): Implications for Insertion and Deletion H. Ohtsubo, H. Ohmori, and E. Ohtsubo    1269

Insertion Mutations Affecting Transposition of Tn3 and Replication of a ColE1 Derivative F. Heifron, M. So, and B. J. McCarthy    1279

Structure of Deletion Derivatives of a Recombinant Plasmid Containing the Trans- posable Element Tn9 in the Spacer Sequence of Xenopus laevis 5S DNA N. V. Fedoroff    1287



Recombination Genetics

Amplification of the rRNA Genes in Tetrahymena M.-C. Yao, E. Blackburn, and J. G. Gall    1293

Studies on the Amplification of Dihydrofolate Reductase Genes in Methotrexate- resistant Cultured Mouse Cells R.. T. Schimke, R. J. Kaufman, J. H. Nunberg, and S. L. Dana    1297

Properties of Yeast Transformation J. B. Hicks, A. Hinnen, and G. R. Fink    1305

The Mechanism of Conversion of Deletions and Insertions C. M. Radding    1315

Relationships between the Correction of Mismatched Bases in DNA and Mutability R.. Holliday, P. J. Pukkila, J. M. Dickson, A. Spanos, and V. Murray    1317

Meiotic Gene Conversion: A Signal of the Basic Recombination Event in Yeast S. Fogel, R.. Mortimer, K. Lusnak, and F. Tavares    1325

Aberrant 4:4 Asci, Disparity in the Direction of the Conversion, and Frequencies of Conversion in Ascobolus immersus J.-L. Rossignol, N. Paquette, and A. Nicolas    1343



Summary F. W. Stahl    1353






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