Synthetic transcripts generated from DraI-digested pJD366-18 ($1.7 kb) were 5 0 end labeled using [g-32 P]CTP. These RNAs (4 ml) were incubated with 1 ml of annealing buffer and either 1 ml of H 2 O or 1 ml of an oligo (0.25 ng) at 70 C. The heating block was allowed to cool at room temperature for 40 min before 8 ml of RNaseH buffer was added (20 mM HEPES, 50 mM KCl, 10 mM MgCl 2 and 1 mM DTT). An aliquot of 1 ml of enzyme was added (mung bean nuclease, RNaseH or RNaseT1) and the reactions incubated at 37 C for 1 h. The reactions were stopped by adding 4 ml of stop solution, the products separated through a 6% polyacrylamide-urea denaturing gel and visualized by autoradiography.