Abstract
Abstract We have re-examined the direction of DNA synthesis in mammalian cells by means of pulse-labeling with [3H]thymidine and DNA autoradiography. Our results show that, whether or not the cells are treated with 5-fluoro-deoxyuridine, and whether they are labeled first with high specific activity [3H]thymidine and then with low, or vice versa, most (⋍ 90%) of the unambiguous autoradiographic patterns can be explained by bidirectional replication but not by unidirectional replication. We also find that in autoradiographic experiments using two different specific activities of [3H]thymidine, obvious differences in grain density are obtained only when the difference in specific activity is threefold or more. Thus, the apparently contradictory findings of Lark et al. (1971) can be explained by the low difference in specific activity used by those authors.
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