The nuclease sensitivity of active genes.

AUTOR(ES)

Nicolas, R H

RESUMO

Brief micrococcal nuclease digestion of chick embryonic red blood cells results in preferential excision and solubilization of monomer nucleosomes associated with beta-globin sequences and also 5'-sequences flanking the beta-globin gene. Both regions are DNAse-I sensitive in nuclei. Such salt-soluble nucleosomes are enriched in all four major HMG proteins but HMG1 and 2 are only weakly associated. These nucleosomes appear to have lost much of the DNAse-I sensitivity of active genes. The HMG14 and 17-containing salt-soluble nucleosomes separated by electrophoresis are not DNAse-I sensitive and contain inactive gene sequences as well as active sequences. Reconstitution of HMG proteins onto bulk nucleosomes or chromatin failed to reveal an HMG-dependent sensitivity of active genes as assayed by dot-blot hybridization and it was found that the DNAse-I sensitivity of ASV proviral sequences as assayed by dot-blot hybridization was not HMG-dependent. These results indicate that higher order chromatin structures might be responsible for nuclease sensitivity of active genes.

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