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D FREIFELDER

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PubMed1964

ENERGY REQUIREMENT FOR THYMINELESS DEATH IN CELLS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI.

Freifelder, David (University of California, Berkeley), and Ole Maaløe. Energy requirement for thymineless death in cells of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 88:987-990. 1964.-Thymineless death in thymine-requiring Escherichia coli is arrested immediately and reversibly by nitrogenation if the bacterial population is growing in a medium containing a carbon source that can only be metabolized aerobically. The mechanism of death, therefore, involves a metabolic process.

Carbon↗
PubMed1963

Physicochemical studies on the reaction between formaldehyde and DNA.

The reaction between formaldehyde and phage T7 DNA has been studied by optical absorbance and sedimentation measurements. Through the course of denaturation, OD(200) and s(20, w) rise; after the attainment of full hyperchromicity the s(20, w) falls sharply, suggesting a decrease in molecular weight. Conditions in which formaldehyde causes cross-linking are defined. Some experimental applications of the denaturation technique are given. Evidence which suggests that preformed single-strand interruptions may exist in phage DNA is briefly discussed.

Coliphages↗
PubMed1962

Studies on the sonic degradation of deoxyribonucleic acid.

T7 DNA was partially degraded by x-rays, DNAase, and sonic irradiation. The molecular weight distributions were calculated from sedimentation velocity studies on the resulting preparations. Comparison with the theoretical curve derived by Montroll and Simha showed that the first two degradative methods act grossly at random, whereas sonication is a non-random process resulting in the preferential halving of the DNA molecules in solution.

DNA↗
PubMed1962

Hyperchromicity and strand separation in bacterial DNA.

Studies of the per cent of strand separation of N(14)-N(15) hybrid coli DNA heated to various temperatures in formaldehyde have shown that the process of strand separation is a function of temperature and formaldehyde concentration and is directly related to the measured hyperchromicity. No strands separate until about 75 per cent of full hyperchromicity is obtained, and even at apparently full hyperchromicity a large fraction of the strands may be held together, possibly by guanine-cytosine-rich regions.

Cytosine↗
PubMed1961

Damage by visible light to the acridine orange--DNA complex.

Salmon DNA has been irradiated with visible light in the presence of acridine orange. If the dye is bound to the DNA, there results: (a) a decrease in sedimentation coefficient, (b) a lowering of viscosity, and (c) a decrease in the thermal denaturation temperature. CsCl banding experiments show that the first two effects reflect depolymerization of the DNA. Depolymerization apparently occurs by single-strand scission although some double-strand scission is not excluded. The destabilization of secondary structure results probably from chemical attack on the components of the individual strands.

Acridine Orange↗