Cell-cycle regulation as a mechanism for targeting proteins to specific DNA sequences in Tetrahymena thermophila.
AUTOR(ES)
Wu, M
RESUMO
Transcriptionally active macronuclei and transcriptionally inert micronuclei of the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila contain similar DNA sequences but have very different histones associated with the linker regions of chromatin. In situ hybridization showed that a gene coding for micronuclear linker histone is expressed only in association with micronuclear DNA replication, whereas the gene for macronuclear H1 histone is expressed during macronuclear (but not during micronuclear) S phase. These results indicate that cell-cycle regulation plays an important role in directing proteins to the appropriate nucleus in Tetrahymena and that the replication-expression model [Gottesfeld, J. & Bloomer, L. S. (1982) Cell 28, 781-791; Wormington, W. M., Schlissel, M. & Brown, D. D. (1983) Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 47, 879-884] for establishing appropriate transcriptionally active or repressed chromatin complexes during DNA replication is generally applicable.
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