Rescue of chromosomal T-antigen sequences onto extrachromosomally replicating, defective simian virus 40 DNA by homologous recombination.

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Abstract
Recombination between chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA sequences was analyzed by investigation of the recombinational rescue of a 1,018-base-pair (bp) segment of the T-antigen gene of simian virus 40 from the chromosome of monkey COS cells to two different, extrachromosomally replicating, simian virus 40 DNA molecules lacking this 1,018-bp sequence. The ratio of rescued to unrecombined virus was as high as 10(-3). The rescued molecules, detected optimally 5 to 9 days after transfection of COS cells, had completely recovered the 1,018-bp DNA segment from the chromosome. The recombination event is proposed to occur either by double reciprocal recombination or by gene conversion between the chromosomal T-antigen gene and the extrachromosomal molecules missing the 1,018-bp sequence.