Isolation of Kinetoplast DNA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 94, Issue , 1999, Pages 61-67

  Shapiro, Theresa A ^a   Klein, Viiu A ^a   Englund, Paul T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beckman SW28 Rotor; CsCl Gradient; Gentian Violet; Kinetoplastid Parasite; Sucrose Cushion

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DNA, KINETOPLAST;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 4444268769     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-259-7:61     Document Type: Chapter

References (23)

1. Shapiro, T. A. and Englund, P. T. (1995) The structure and replication of kinetoplast DNA. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 49, 117–143.
2. Shlomai, J. (1994) The assembly of kinetoplast DNA. Parasitol. Today 10, 341–346.
3. Stuart, K. and Feagin, J. E. (1992) Mitochondrial DNA of kinetoplastids. Int. Rev. Cytol. 141, 65–88.
4. Simpson, L. (1987) The mitochondrial genome of kinetoplastid protozoa: Genomic organization, transcription, replication, and evolution. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 41, 363–382.
5. Ray, D. S. (1987) Kinetoplast DNA minicircles: High-copy-number mitochondrial plasmids. Plasmid 17, 177–190.
6. Marini, J. C., Miller, K. G., and Englund, P. T. (1980) Decatenation of kinetoplast DNA by topoisomerases. J. Biol. Chem. 255, 4976–4979.
7. Simpson, L. and Thiemann, O. H. (1995) Sense from nonsense: RNA editing in mitochondria of kinetoplastid protozoa and slime molds. Cell 81, 837–840.
8. Benne, R. (1994) RNA editing in trypanosomes. Eur. J. Biochem. 221, 9–23.
9. Hajduk, S. L., Harris, M. E., and Pollard, V. W. (1993) RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria. FASEB J. 7, 54–63.
10. Chen, J., Rauch, C. A., White, J. H., Englund, P. T., and Cozzarelli, N. R. (1995) The topology of the kinetoplast DNA network. Cell 80, 61–69.
11. Rauch, C. A., Pérez-Morga, D., Cozzarelli, N. R., and Englund, P. T. (1993) The absence of supercoiling in kinetoplast DNA minicircles. EMBO J. 12, 403–411.
12. Shapiro, T. A. (1993) Kinetoplast DNA maxicircles: networks within networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 7809–7813.
13. Miller, K. G., Liu, L. F., and Englund, P. T. (1981) A homogeneous type II DNA topoisomerase from HeLa cell nuclei. J. Biol. Chem. 256, 9334–9339.
14. Sahai, B. M. and Kaplan, J. G. (1986) A quantitative decatenation assay for type II topoisomerases. Anal. Biochem. 156, 364–379.
15. Muller, M. T., Helal, K., Soisson, S., and Spitzner, J. R. (1989) A rapid and quantitative assay for eukaryotic topoisomerase II. Nucleic Acids Res. 17, 9499.
16. Low, R. L., Kaguni, J. M., and Kornberg, A. (1984) Potent catenation of supercoiled and gapped DNA circles by topoisomerase I in the presence of a hydrophilic polymer. J. Biol. Chem. 259, 4576–4581.
17. Dean, F. B. and Cozzarelli, N. R. (1985) Mechanism of strand passage by Escherichia coli topoisomerase I: The role of the required nick in catenation and knotting of duplex DNA. J. Biol. Chem. 260, 4984–4994.
18. Simpson, A. M. and Simpson, L. (1974) Isolation and characterization of kinetoplast DNA networks and minicircles from Crithidia fasciculata. J. Protozool. 21, 774–781.
19. Hajduk, S. L., Klein, V. A., and Englund, P. T. (1984) Replication of kinetoplast DNA maxicircles. Cell 36, 483–492.
20. Pérez-Morga, D. and Englund, P. T. (1993) The structure of replicating kinetoplast DNA networks. J. Cell Biol. 123, 1069–1079.
21. 3H]thymidine. J. Protozool. 21, 379–382.
22. Englund, P. T. (1978) The replication of kinetoplast DNA networks in Crithidia fasciculata. Cell 14, 157–168.
23. Pérez-Morga, D. L. and Englund, P. T. (1993) The attachment of minicircles to kinetoplast DNA networks during replication. Cell 74, 703–711.