Induction of an altered DNA conformation by an inversion rearrangement in the 5'-flanking DNA of a U1 RNA gene.
The anomalous electrophoretic behavior of a 686 base pair restriction fragment containing an in vitro-generated inversion mutation within the enhancer region of a chicken U1 RNA gene was investigated. This DNA fragment migrated with an abnormally slow mobility in polyacrylamide gels but migrated normally in agarose gels relative to the wild type fragment of identical size and base composition. In polyacrylamide gels, the degree of retardation was enhanced at low temperature, a phenomenon associated with bent DNA. A putative site of bending was localized at or near one end of the inverted region. These data suggest that the altered DNA conformation results from the juxtaposition of two normally remote DNA sequences.
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D001483:Base Sequence; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D010957:Plasmids; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012342:RNA, Small Nuclear / Q000235:genetics*; D015183:Restriction Mapping
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012342:RNA, Small Nuclear