Expression of transfected DNA depends on DNA topology
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Expression of transfected DNA depends on DNA topology
Abstract
Supercoiled DNAs, especially those containing enhancers, yield markedly higher levels of expression than linearized DNA when transfected into CV-1 cells or L cells. Different templates, linear or supercoiled, enhancer-containing or not, saturate for expression at 2 micrograms DNA per dish, suggesting that one role for enhancers and supercoiling is to increase the efficiency with which the same limiting component is used. Plasmids containing only enhancers or only promoters do not compete for expression with an enhancer-driven gene. However, plasmids that contain both enhancers and promoters do complete, suggesting that a second role for enhancers is to increase the binding of a limiting transcription factor. Linear and supercoiled enhancer-promoter plasmids compete equivalently. This suggests that supercoiling affects the ability of transcription factors to activate a given promoter, once bound.
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