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X-ray diffraction works best on substances that can be prepared as perfectly regular crystalline arrays. However, it was impossible to obtain true crystals of natural DNA at the Major time Franklin conducted her analysis, groove so she had to use DNA in the form of fibers.

The diffrac- fibers of DNA. They analyzed the problem de- nitrogenous bases P O ductively, first building models of P O the nucleotides, and then trying to G O C assemble the nucleotides into a mol- P ecule that matched what was known C O about the structure of DNA.

They O G P tried various possibilities before they P A finally hit on the idea that the mole- O cule might be a simple double helix, O with the bases of two strands pointed T P inward toward each other, forming G P base-pairs.

In their model, base- pairs always consist of purines, which O are large, pointing toward pyrim- O C idines, which are small, keeping the P diameter of the molecule a constant OH T 2 nanometers.

The base-pairs O are planar flat and stack 0. Consequently, adenine duplex molecule, only two base-pairs are and thymine will always occur in the possible: adenine A can pair with thymine same proportions in any DNA mole- T , and guanine G can pair with cytosine C.

An A-T base-pair has two hydrogen cule, as will guanine and cytosine, be- bonds, while a G-C base-pair has three. One chain of the DNA molecule may have any conceivable base sequence, but this sequence com- pletely determines the sequence of its partner in the du- plex. Thus, each chain in the duplex is a complement of the other. The complementarity of the DNA duplex provides a ready means of accurately duplicating the molecule.

These bands of DNA, photographed on the left and scanned on the duplex itself is not. Instead, each strand of the duplex be- right, are from the density-gradient centrifugation experiment of comes part of another duplex. Meselson and Stahl. At 0 generation, all DNA is heavy; after one Two other hypotheses of gene replication were also replication all DNA has a hybrid density; after two replications, proposed.

The conservative model stated that the parental all DNA is hybrid or light. The disper- sive model predicted that parental DNA would become dispersed throughout the new copy so that each strand of strands, they migrate farther down the tube to a denser all the daughter molecules would be a mixture of old and region of the cesium gradient.

After the second round of tope of nitrogen, 15N, which became incorporated into the replication, two density classes of DNA were observed, one bases of the bacterial DNA.

After several generations, the intermediate and one equal to that of 14N-DNA figure DNA of these bacteria was denser than that of bacteria Meselson and Stahl then transferred the bacteria after the first round of replication, each daughter DNA du- from the 15N medium to the 14N medium and collected the plex was a hybrid possessing one of the heavy strands of the DNA at various intervals.

The enormous centrifugal forces generated by the cates in a semiconservative manner. Each DNA complementarity. A DNA molecule is a duplex, strand floats or sinks in the gradient until it reaches the containing two strands that are complementary mirror images of each other, so either one can be used as a position where its density exactly matches the density of template to reconstruct the other.

Bacteria were grown in Bacterial a medium containing a cell heavy isotope of nitrogen. Bacteria were then allowed to grow in a medium containing a light isotope of nitrogen. At various times, the DNA from bacterial cells was extracted. The DNA was suspended in a cesium chloride solution. Bacterial cells were grown for several generations in a medium containing a heavy isotope of nitrogen 15N and then were transferred to a new medium containing the normal lighter isotope 14N.

At various times thereafter, samples of the bacteria were collected, and their DNA was dissolved in a solution of cesium chloride, which was spun rapidly in a centrifuge. Because the cesium ion is so massive, it tends to settle toward the bottom of the spinning tube, establishing a gradient of cesium density. DNA containing 15N is denser than that containing 14N, so it sinks to a lower position in the cesium gradient.

After two generations in 14N medium, two bands were obtained; one of intermediate density in which one of the strands contained 15N and one of low density in which neither strand contained 15N. Meselson and Stahl concluded that replication of the DNA duplex involves building new molecules by separating strands and assembling new partners on each of these templates.

Replication origin The machinery responsible has been the subject of inten- sive study for 40 years, and we now know a great deal about it. The replication of DNA begins at one or more sites on the DNA molecule where there is a specific sequence of New Template strands strands nucleotides called a replication origin figure Table At a site called the replication origin, the The first DNA polymerase enzyme to be characterized, DNA duplex opens to create two separate strands, each of which DNA polymerase I of the bacterium Escherichia coli, is a rel- can be used as a template for a new strand.

Eukaryotic DNA has atively small enzyme that plays a key supporting role in multiple origins of replication. When a nucleotide is added, two of its phosphates are lost as pyrophosphate. The true E. The en- RNA primers zyme is a dimer, with two similar multisubunit complexes.

The protein is a dimer because both strands of the DNA duplex must be replicated simultaneously. Helicase enzymes separate the strands of the double helix, and single-strand binding proteins stabilize the single-stranded regions.

Replication occurs by two mechanisms. In contrast, the lagging strand, which elongates away from the replication fork, is synthe- One of the features of DNA polymerase III is that it can sized discontinuously as a series of short segments that are add nucleotides only to a chain of nucleotides that is al- later connected.

These segments, called Okazaki frag- ready paired with the parent strands. Hence, DNA poly- ments, are about to nucleotides long in eukaryotes merase cannot link the first nucleotides in a newly synthe- and to nucleotides long in prokaryotes.

Each sized strand. The DNA is strands. DNA polymerase III then jumps ahead to nu- cleotides toward the replication fork to begin construct- ing another Okazaki fragment. Because the two parent DNA is said to be semidiscontinuous. Therefore, the new strands must be elongated by different mechanisms! The The replication of the DNA double helix is a complex leading strand, which elongates toward the replication process that has taken decades of research to understand.

Opening up the DNA double helix. The very sta- formally called a primosome. Starting chains on exposed tem- strands separated from each other for semiconserva- plates introduces many errors; RNA marks this initial tive replication to occur. The binding of ini- stretch easy to excise later. Assembling complementary strands. Next, the tricate series of interactions that opens the helix. After initiation, cation fork. The un- polymerase III catalyzes the formation of comple- wound portion of the DNA double helix is stabilized mentary sequences on each of the two single strands by single-strand binding protein, which binds to at the same time.

Removing the primer. The enzyme DNA poly- cleavage and preventing them from rewinding. Joining the Okazaki fragments. After any gaps fork must rotate revolutions per second!

To re- between Okazaki fragments are filled in, the enzyme lieve the resulting twisting, called torque, enzymes DNA ligase joins the fragments to the lagging known as topisomerases—or, more informally, gy- strand. DNA replication involves many different proteins that 2. Building a primer. The necessary primer is a short strand—one of them discontinuously—remove the RNA primer, and join new discontinuous segments on the stretch of RNA, added by a specialized RNA poly- lagging strand.

Each individual zone of a chromosome replicates as a discrete section called a replication unit, or replicon, which can vary in length from 10, to 1 million base-pairs; most are about , base-pairs long. Each replication unit has its own origin of replication, and multiple units may be undergo- ing replication at any given time, as can be seen in elec- tron micrographs of replicating chromosomes figure Each unit replicates in a way fundamentally simi- lar to prokaryotic DNA replication, using similar en- zymes.

The advantage of having multiple origins of repli- cation in eukaryotes is speed: replication takes approximately eight hours in humans cells, but if there were only one origin, it would take times longer. Regulation of the replication process ensures that only one copy of the DNA is ultimately produced. How a cell achieves this regulation is not yet completely clear.

It may involve periodic inhibitor or initiator proteins on the DNA molecule itself. Eukaryotic chromosomes have multiple origins of replication. The residual protein scaffolding appears as the dark material in 3 the lower part of the micrograph.

Four replication units each with two replication forks are producing daughter strands a in this electron micrograph, as indicated in red in the b corresponding drawing.

In normal individuals, homogentisic acid is broken Hypothesis down into simpler substances. With considerable insight, As the structure of DNA was being solved, other biologists Garrod concluded that patients suffering from alkaptonuria continued to puzzle over how the genes of Mendel were re- lacked the enzyme necessary to catalyze this breakdown. He speculated that many other inherited diseases might also reflect enzyme deficiencies.

By examining sev- , when a series of experiments by Stanford University eral generations of these families, he found that some of geneticists George Beadle and Edward Tatum provided the diseases behaved as if they were the product of simple definitive evidence on this point. Beadle and Tatum delib- recessive alleles.

Garrod concluded that these disorders erately set out to create Mendelian mutations in chromo- were Mendelian traits and that they had resulted from somes and then studied the effects of these mutations on changes in the hereditary information in an ancestor of the organism figure Garrod investigated several of these dis- orders in detail. In alkaptonuria the pa- tients produced urine that contained ho- X rays or ultraviolet light mogentisic acid alkapton. This fungus grows easily on an medium medium artificial medium in test tubes.

Any spore that would not grow presence of mutation on the minimal medium but would grow on the complete medium contained one or more mutations in genes needed to produce the Minimal media supplemented with: missing nutrients. To determine which gene had mutated, the minimal medium was supplemented with particular substances. The mutation illustrated here produced an arginine mutant, a collection of cells that lost the ability to manufacture arginine.

These Pyridoxine Choline Nucleic Arginine Riboflavin Minimal cells will not grow on minimal medium but acid control will grow on minimal medium with only p-Amino Inositol Folic Niacin Thiamine arginine added. The chromosomal locations of the many arginine mutants isolated by Beadle and Tatum cluster around three locations. These locations correspond to the locations of the genes encoding the enzymes that carry out arginine biosynthesis.

A Defined System. One of the reasons Beadle and to grow. The ad- researchers made an excellent choice of experimental organ- dition of arginine, for example, permitted several mutant ism. They chose the bread mold Neurospora, a fungus that strains, dubbed arg mutants, to grow.

When their chromo- can be grown readily in the laboratory on a defined medium somal positions were located, the arg mutations were found a medium that contains only known substances such as glu- to cluster in three areas figure DNA changes of this kind a defective form of that enzyme, and the mutation was al- are called mutations, and organisms that have undergone ways located at one of a few specific chromosomal sites.

Initially, they al- each enzyme. Thus, each of the mutants they examined had lowed the progeny of the irradiated spores to grow on a de- a defect in a single enzyme, caused by a mutation at a single fined medium containing all of the nutrients necessary for site on one chromosome.

Beadle and Tatum concluded growth, so that any growth-deficient mutants resulting from that genes produce their effects by specifying the structure the irradiation would be kept alive. To determine enzyme hypothesis. Cells that had lost the abil- all the parts of an organism.

They mediate the assembly of ity to make other compounds necessary for growth would nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. There- not survive on such a medium. Using this approach, Beadle fore, by encoding the structure of enzymes and other pro- and Tatum succeeded in identifying and isolating many teins, DNA specifies the structure of the organism itself. Genetic traits are expressed largely as a result of the Identifying the Deficiencies. Next the researchers activities of enzymes.

Organisms store hereditary added various chemicals to the minimal medium in an at- information by encoding the structures of enzymes and other proteins in their DNA.

By ana- lyzing the structures of normal and sickle cell hemoglobin, Structure Ingram, working at Cambridge University, showed that What kind of information must a gene encode to specify a sickle cell anemia is caused by a change from glutamic acid protein? For some time, the answer to that question was to valine at a single position in the protein figure The alleles of the gene encoding hemoglobin differed only in their specification of this one amino acid in the hemo- globin amino acid chain.

Sanger: Proteins Consist of Defined Sequences of These experiments and other related ones have finally Amino Acids brought us to a clear understanding of the unit of heredity. The picture changed in , the same year in which Wat- The characteristics of sickle cell anemia and most other son and Crick unraveled the structure of DNA.

That year, hereditary traits are defined by changes in protein structure the English biochemist Frederick Sanger, after many years brought about by an alteration in the sequence of amino of work, announced the complete sequence of amino acids acids that make up the protein. This sequence in turn is in the protein insulin. Insulin, a small protein hormone, dictated by the order of nucleotides in a particular region was the first protein for which the amino acid sequence was of the chromosome.

For example, the critical change lead- determined. The sequence given form of insulin, every molecule has the same amino of nucleotides that determines the amino acid sequence of a acid sequence. Although most genes encode pro- many other proteins, and it became clear that all enzymes teins or subunits of proteins, some genes are devoted to the and other proteins are strings of amino acids arranged in a production of special forms of RNA, many of which play certain definite order.

The information needed to specify a important roles in protein synthesis themselves. A half-century of experimentation has made clear that DNA is the molecule responsible for the inheritance of traits, and that this molecule is divided into functional Ingram: Single Amino Acid Changes in a Protein units called genes.

It represents a change in a single amino acid, from glutamic acid to valine at the sixth position in the chains, which consequently alters the tertiary structure of the hemoglobin molecule, reducing its ability to carry oxygen. The initial line of B there are increased chances for targeting more antigen and T cell activation is less but once these cells migrate presenting cells [9,19].

Other routes like vaginal mucosa [21], activate immature dendritic cells to produce a whole intra nasal [22], and oral [23] are the other routes which new set of B and T cells [3]. Pain produced by the procedure is the only disadvantage of 1. The striking feature of DNA vaccine is that it can tattooing.

Comparative features of the different methods gear up both the arms of immunity. Risk of reversion to the virulence is nill in case of DNA vaccine as compared with the live Mode of action of DNA vaccine attenuated vaccine. The magical action of DNA vaccine starts once 3. Rapid manufacturing time. Decoding of the gene of interest takes place in the 5. Storage and transport is easy [28]. Protein synthesis occurs in the cytoplasm. The fate of these 1.

Chance of developing auto immune disorders. Risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance gene. Possibility of developing auto antibodies against [34], immune adjutants. Against melanoma in dogs [35], 4. Due to integration of foreign DNA into host, can 4. Growth hormone releasing hormone GHRH lead to insertional mutagenesis [28]. Marketed name, marketing company, year Improving immunogenicity of license, properties of these approved vaccines are given in the Table Even though there are lot of positive points of Conclusion DNA vaccines still it in the infant stage.

In order to enhance the immunogenic capacity of DNA vaccine DNA vaccines can be said as the treasure which certain strategies can be followed. Since it uses only the plasmid 1. Codon optimization: Codon bias is seen in case of DNA there is less chance of contamination and hence E.

Hence it is better to change the codon adverse effects are lesser. Once the cracks in case of sequence which is commonly used in those strains in stimulation of immunity are sealed then this new novel order to get good translation [29]. This process is also vaccine can be available in the market for all sorts of called as 'Humanization of codons' [29].

Thus it is for real that the DNA vaccine is 2. Untranslated regions: Inclusion of Kozak consensus getting ready for the 'Prime Time'. Stewart, A. The history of the 3. Cytosine phosphate guanine motifs CpG : Un- smallpox vaccine. Ada, G. Overview of vaccines and vaccination. Toll like receptor 7 TLR Thus they stimulate B 3. Ingolotti, M. DNA vaccines regulating innate and acquired immunity [31].

Expert Rev Vaccines. Prime boost approach 4. Sandoval, A. R and Ertl, H. DNA Vaccines. Current Molecular Medicine. DNA vaccines are less effective compared to 5.

Robinson, H. In order to Tang, D. Genetic repeatedly. Heterologous vaccination regime can be immunization is a simple method for eliciting an immune used in order to induce the immunity. This strategy is response. Nature, — Kowalczyk, D. Life Sci. Ritter, T.

Stimulatory boosters. In this approach first dose is given as naked and inhibitory action of cytokines on the regulation of DNA by gene gun followed by boosting with the same hCMV-IE promoter activity in human endothelial cells. This has Cytokine. Kutzler, M. DNA vaccines: ready been useful in case of proteins which are poorly for prime time? Nature Reviews Genetics. This approach Vanniasinkam, T. DNA helps to reduce the repeated boosters and enhance the immunization using a non-viral promoter.

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