Abstract
Replication interference by specific chromosomal sequences—such as trinucleotide repeats—plays a causative, though undefined role in the aetiology of human disease, especially neurodegenerative syndromes. However, studies on these mechanisms in human cells have been hampered by poorly defined replication origins on genomic DNA. Simian Virus 40 (SV40)-based plasmids were useful in the past to overcome these experimental limits, but have been rarely amenable for the most complex and revealing molecular biology approaches to study in vivo DNA replication interference. This chapter describes a new, safe, SV40-based episomal system that replicates with very high efficiency in human cells and allows isolation of in vivo replication intermediates with high yield and purity. We describe how to use this experimental system to run preparative agarose 2D-gel and to extract specific replication intermediates to visualize by electron microscopy.
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Follonier, C., Lopes, M. (2014). Combined Bidimensional Electrophoresis and Electron Microscopy to Study Specific Plasmid DNA Replication Intermediates in Human Cells. In: Stockert, J., Espada, J., Blázquez-Castro, A. (eds) Functional Analysis of DNA and Chromatin. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1094. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-706-8_16
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