Cycle specific association of nascent chromatin with nuclear envelope components in Physarum polycephalum.

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Wille, J J

RESUMO

The action of heparin on isolated nuclei derived from different phases of the mitotic cycle in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum was studied. Heparin addition at two-fold excess over DNA concentration to nuclei in Mg-free low ionic strength buffer (10 mM TRIS-HC1, 10 mM Na2 HPO4, pH = 8) releases 60-80% of chromatin from S, G2, and mitotic phase nuclei. The RNA/protein ratio of herparin-solubilized cromatin is constant through S and G2 phases, but rises about two-fold at early prophase coincident with nucleolar breakdown. Purified nuclear envelopes were obtained from heparin-treated nuclei by sedimentation according to Bornens procedures (Nature 244, 28, 1973), and examined by transmission electron microscopy. Residual chromatin is seen at all stages with fine network of DNA fibrils in contact with the envelop. Regardless of time in S, 80% of 3H-labeled DNA was released into soluble chromatin with identical 3H/14C ratios. The residual chromatin in nuclear envelopes exhibited a preferential association of early S-DNA in nuclei engaged in early S replication, and late S preferential association in nuclei engaged in late S replication.

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