Nucleosomes in metaphase chromosomes

Wigler, M. H., Axel, R. (1976) Nucleosomes in metaphase chromosomes. Nucleic Acids Res, 3 (6). pp. 1463-1461.

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Abstract

Previous studies of the structure of metaphase chromosomes have relied heavily on electron micrography and have revealed the existence of a 10-nm unit fiber that is thought to generate the native 23-30-nm fiber by higher order folding. The structural relationship of these metaphase fibers to the interphase fiber remains obscure. Recent studies on the digestion of interphase chromatin have revealed the existence of a regularly repeating subunit of DNA and histone, the nucleosome that generates the appearance of 10-nm beads connected by a short fiber of DNA seen on electron micrographs. It was therefore of interest to probe the structure of the metaphase chromosome for the presence of nucleosomal subunits. To this end metaphase chromosomes were prepared from colchicine-arrested cultures of mouse L-cells and were subjected to digestion with stayphylococcal nuclease. Comparison of the early and limit digestion products of metaphase chromosomes with those obtained from interphase nuclei indicates that although significant morphologic changes occur within the chromatin fiber during mitosis, the basic subunit structure of the chromatin fiber is retained by the mitotic chromosome

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > metaphase
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > nucleosome
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Communities: CSHL labs > Wigler lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: 1976
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2012 15:39
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2017 17:17
PMCID: PMC343005
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/25975

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