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Science 5 November 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4009, pp. 603 - 606
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4009.603
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Informational DNA Synthesis Distinguished from That of Nuclear DNA by Inhibitors of DNA Synthesis

Eugene Bell 1

1 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139

With inhibitors of DNA synthesis used in the presence of ethidium bromide, it has been possible to distinguish between synthesis of informational DNA (I-DNA) and that of nuclear DNA. Hydroxyurea depresses I-DNA synthesis preferentially but does not affect DNA transport between cell compartments. 5-Fluorodeoxyuridine and cytosine arabinoside reduce synthesis of I-DNA to a much lesser degree than that of nuclear DNA.

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