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Structure of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA chromatin of Physarum polycephalum.

Abstract：

:Isolated nucleoli from exponentially growing microplasmodia of Physarum polycephalum were digested with micrococcal nuclease or DNAase I, or were photoreacted with trimethyl psoralen. In the coding region for the precursor of the ribosomal RNA, micrococcal nuclease and DNAase I digestions show predominantly a smear, and treatment with psoralen leads to a fairly continuous crosslinking of the DNA. All three assays are compatible with the absence of a typical nucleosomal array in most of the gene copies. In contrast, in the central non-transcribed spacer, except in the immediate 5'-flanking region, micrococcal nuclease and DNAase I digestions yield fragments that are multiples of a basic repeat, compatible with a nucleosomal packing of this region. The crosslinking pattern with psoralen confirms this conclusion. In addition, there are three sites over 400 base-pairs long that are inaccessible for psoralen crosslinking. Two of these sites have been mapped to the putative origins of replication. In the terminal non-transcribed spacer, except in the immediate 3'-flanking region, digestions with micrococcal nuclease and DNAase I give a smeared repeat. The crosslinking pattern after treatment with psoralen suggests that this region is packed in nucleosomes, except for about 900 base-pairs constituting the telomere regions of the linear extrachromosomal palindromic rDNA. Micrococcal nuclease digestion of the immediate 5'-flanking region shows a complete absence of any nucleosomal repeat, but digestion with DNAase I leads to a faint ten base-pair repeat. In contrast, in the 3'-flanking regions both nuclease assays indicate a chromatin structure similar to the coding region. Both flanking regions are unusual with respect to psoralen crosslinking, in that crosslinking is reduced both in chromatin and deproteinized DNA. On the basis of the known sequence-dependent psoralen crosslinking and the established sequences in these regions, crosslinking should be expected to occur. However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Lucchini R,Pauli U,Braun R,Koller T,Sogo JM

doi

10.1016/0022-2836(87)90408-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-08-20 00:00:00

pages

829-43

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

0022-2836(87)90408-6

journal_volume

196

pub_type

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Structure of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA chromatin of Physarum polycephalum.