LONG INSERTIONS WITHIN TELOMERES CONTRIBUTE TO CHROMOSOME SIZE POLYMORPHISM IN PLASMODIUM-BERGHEI

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PACE, T
PONZI, M
DORE, E
JANSE, C
MONS, B
FRONTALI, C
机构
[1] IST SUPER SANITA,CELLULAR BIOL LAB,I-00161 ROME,ITALY
[2] UNIV LEIDEN,PARASITOL LAB,LEIDEN,NETHERLANDS
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10.1128/MCB.10.12.6759
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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During prolonged in vivo mitotic multiplication of a Plasmodium berghei ANKA clone (8417HP), parasites that contained an enlarged version of chromosome 4 were observed. Restriction mapping and hybridization results demonstrated that the extra DNA present in the enlarged chromosomes consists of 2.3-kb tandem repeats, known to be normally located in subtelomeric position at several chromosomal ends but absent in the original chromosome. The inserted 2.3-kb units appeared to interrupt one of the original telomeres and to create an internal (~1-kb-long) telomeric sequence.
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