Smith, S., Stillman, B. (June 1991) Immunological characterization of chromatin assembly factor I, a human cell factor required for chromatin assembly during DNA replication in vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 266 (18). pp. 12041-12047. ISSN 0021-9258
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Abstract
Chromatin assembly factor I (CAF-I) is a multisubunit protein complex purified from the nuclei of human cells and required for chromatin assembly during DNA replication in vitro. Purified CAF-I promotes chromatin assembly in a reaction that is dependent upon, and coupled with, DNA replication and is therefore likely to reflect events that occur during S phase in vivo. In order to investigate the regulation and mechanism of CAF-I and the replication-dependent chromatin assembly process, we have used the purified protein to raise monoclonal antibodies. In this report we describe the characterization of a panel of monoclonal antibodies which recognize different subunits of the CAF-I complex. We use immunoprecipitation analysis to show that CAF-I exists as a multiprotein complex in vivo and that some of the polypeptides are phosphorylated. In addition, immunocytochemistry demonstrates that CAF-I is localized to the nucleus of human cells. Finally, monoclonal antibodies directed against the individual subunits of CAF-I immunodeplete chromatin assembly activity from nuclear extracts, confirming that CAF-I is a multisubunit protein required for chromatin assembly in vitro.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Antibodies, Monoclonal diagnostic use Blotting Western Cell Nucleus chemistry DNA Replication Hela Cells Humans Immunohistochemistry In Vitro Nuclear Proteins immunology Phosphoproteins chemistry Precipitin Tests |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA replication bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Chromatin dynamics |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Stillman lab |
| Highlight: | Stillman, Bruce W. |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | 25 June 1991 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2012 16:08 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2017 20:09 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/25058 |
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