Abstract:
:The linking number of DNA in minichromosomes increases by 2 turns during SV40 assembly. Changes in temperature also influence the average linking number of the total intracellular forms of SV40 DNA. When the isolated minichromosomes assembled in vivo are incubated with topoisomerase I at 33 degrees C in vitro, the linking number of SV40 DNA decreases. This decrease is about: -1.1 turns for minichromosomes with an average nucleosome spacing of 198 base pairs (bp), wt776; and -0.6 turns for minichromosomes containing a shorter average nucleosome repeat (177 bp), tsC219. The difference between the average linking number of naked SV40 DNA relaxed with topoI at 33 degrees C and minichromosomes relaxed with the enzyme at the same temperature indicates that SV40 chromatin contains on the average 26 nucleosomes. However, the results of studies obtained both on DNA flexibility in chromatin and in naked DNA, and on the shape of the topoisomer distribution curves, indicate that all of the minichromosomes, regardless of their overall structure, do not contain the same number of nucleosomes; this heterogeneity may be as large as 8 nucleosomes. We find no apparent correlation between the amount of minichromosomes containing unconstrained torsional stress and the abundance of the molecules with a structure characteristic of transcriptionally active chromatin.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Ambrose C,McLaughlin R,Bina Mdoi
10.1093/nar/15.9.3703subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-05-11 00:00:00pages
3703-21issue
9eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962journal_volume
15pub_type
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