Chromatin structure of histone genes in sea urchin sperms and embryos.
AUTOR(ES)
Spinelli, G
RESUMO
The nucleosomal organization of active and repressed alpha subtype histone genes has been investigated by micrococcal nuclease digestion of P. lividus sperm, 32-64 cell embryo and mesenchyme blastula nuclei, followed by hybridization with 32P-labeled specific DNA probes. In sperms, fully repressed histone genes are regularly folded in nucleosomes, and exhibit a greater resistance to micrococcal nuclease cleavage than bulk chromatin. In contrast, both coding and spacer alpha subtype histone DNA sequences acquire an altered conformation in nuclei from early cleavage stage embryos, i.e., when these genes are maximally expressed. Switching off of the alpha subtype histone genes, in mesenchyme blastulae, restores the typical nucleosomal organization on this chromatin region. As probed by hybridization to D.melanogaster actin cDNA, actin genes retain a regular nucleosomal structure in all the investigated stages.
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