A mitochondrial extract of Xenopus oocytes was prepared to characterize DNA repair reactions operating in mitochondria. We asked whether and how uracils, spontaneously formed in DNA as a result of cytosine deamination, would be repaired in the extract. When a 40-mer oligonucleotide duplex with a single deoxyuridine at position 21 was incubated in the extract, incision took place at the 5' side of the lesion, and the uracil-containing strand was mostly cleaved within 15 min. Subsequent repair DNA synthesis produced DNA fragments of various sizes. Analysis of these repair intermediates indicated that the 3' border of the repair patches was at position 22. Completion of the repair reaction however was rare in this system, due in part to insufficient ligation activity of the extract.
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