Triplex-forming DNAs in the human interphase nucleus visualized in situ by polypurine/polypyrimidine DNA probes and antitriplex antibodies.

Abstract:

:The polypurine/polypyrimidine (PuPy) tracts present in the human genome are known to be scattered among and within chromosomes. In PuPy tract sequences, triplex formation occurs readily under physiological conditions, leaving single-stranded DNAs capable of hybridization with complementary single-stranded DNAs and RNAs. The formation of single-strands and transmolecular triplexes is thought to enable sequences spaced distantly along the genome to associate with each other and organize nuclear DNA into ordered configurations. Triplex-forming DNAs in the human interphase nucleus were analyzed by combining fluorescence in situ "nondenaturing" hybridization employing PuPy tract probes and immunodetection by antitriplex antibodies. The nondenaturing hybridization technique, which has been used to detect RNA, may detect single-stranded DNAs in nondenatured nuclei, if present. Probes such as (GA/TC)(n) and (GAA/TTC)(n) sequences gave sequence-specific signals that overlapped with or were closely associated with triplexes immunolocalized by using known antitriplex antibodies. Pretreatment of nuclei with antitriplex antibodies blocked probe signal formation. Signal formation was resistant to pretreatment of nuclei with RNases but sensitive to single strand-specific nucleases. Triplexes visualized differentially with distinct PuPy tract probes were associated spatially with centromeric sequences in the interphase nucleus in a sequence-specific manner.

journal_name

Chromosoma

journal_title

Chromosoma

authors

Ohno M,Fukagawa T,Lee JS,Ikemura T

doi

10.1007/s00412-002-0198-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-09-01 00:00:00

pages

201-13

issue

3

eissn

0009-5915

issn

1432-0886

journal_volume

111

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Chromosome segregation in crane-fly spermatocytes: cold treatment and cold recovery induce anaphase lag.

    abstract::Anaphase lagging of autosomes was observed in 6.1 +/- 5.4% of the primary spermatocytes in untreated larvae of the crane fly, Nephrotoma suturalis. Lagging was induced by exposure of larvae to 6 degrees C and during recovery at 22 degrees C from exposure to 0.2, 2, and 6 degrees C. The incidence of anaphase lag was ma...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00330776

    authors: Janicke MA,LaFountain JR Jr

    更新日期:1982-01-01 00:00:00

  • Chromosomal locations of major tRNA gene clusters of Xenopus laevis.

    abstract::In Xenopus laevis eight tRNA genes are located in a 3.18 kb tandemly repeated unit. There are 150 copies of the unit at a single locus near the long arm telomere of one of the acrocentric chromosomes in the 14-17 group. Two additional classes of tRNA gene-containing repeats have been isolated (defined by clones p3.1 a...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00352227

    authors: Narayanswami S,Doering JL,Fokta FJ,Rosenthal DS,Nguyen TN,Hamkalo BA

    更新日期:1995-10-01 00:00:00

  • Antibody labelling and flow cytometric analysis of metaphase chromosomes reveals two discrete structural forms.

    abstract::Metaphase chromosomes from cultured Chinese Hamster Ovary cells were labelled in suspension with a monoclonal antibody to histone 2B, counterstained with propidium iodide (PI) and analysed by flow cytometry. Contour plots of antibody binding (FITC fluorescence) against DNA content (PI fluorescence) revealed two discre...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00294783

    authors: Turner BM,Keohane A

    更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00

  • Haspin: a newly discovered regulator of mitotic chromosome behavior.

    abstract::The haspins are divergent members of the eukaryotic protein kinase family that are conserved in many eukaryotic lineages including animals, fungi, and plants. Recently-solved crystal structures confirm that the kinase domain of human haspin has unusual structural features that stabilize a catalytically active conforma...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1007/s00412-009-0250-4

    authors: Higgins JM

    更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00

  • Heterochromatin, HP1 and methylation at lysine 9 of histone H3 in animals.

    abstract::We show that methylated lysine 9 of histone H3 (Me9H3) is a marker of heterochromatin in divergent animal species. It localises to both constitutive and facultative heterochromatin and replicates late in S-phase of the cell cycle. Significantly, Me9H3 is enriched in the inactive mammalian X chromosome (Xi) in female c...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-002-0182-8

    authors: Cowell IG,Aucott R,Mahadevaiah SK,Burgoyne PS,Huskisson N,Bongiorni S,Prantera G,Fanti L,Pimpinelli S,Wu R,Gilbert DM,Shi W,Fundele R,Morrison H,Jeppesen P,Singh PB

    更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00

  • Suppression of quinacrine banding of human chromosomes by mounting in organic media.

    abstract::When A-banded human chromosomes mounted in water are transferred to an organic mounting medium, the chromosomes show uniform bright quinacrine fluorescence. This change is reversible. It is inferred that quinacrine is bound uniformly along the chromosomes, and that Q-banding is a consequence of a non-uniform distribut...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00294941

    authors: Sumner AT

    更新日期:1977-12-06 00:00:00

  • Epigenetic changes in mammalian gametes throughout their lifetime: the four seasons metaphor.

    abstract::The ability to reproduce is a major trait of living organisms. This ability is carried out by specialized reproductive cells-gametes. In mammals, gametes develop through a unique developmental pathway. Extensive changes in the epigenome of gametes occur during embryonic development. With birth, gametes continue to mat...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1007/s00412-019-00704-w

    authors: Wasserzug-Pash P,Klutstein M

    更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00

  • The evolutionary life history of P transposons: from horizontal invaders to domesticated neogenes.

    abstract::P elements, a family of DNA transposons, are known as aggressive intruders into the hitherto uninfected gene pool of Drosophila melanogaster. Invading through horizontal transmission from an external source they managed to spread rapidly through natural populations within a few decades. Owing to their propensity for r...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1007/s004120100144

    authors: Pinsker W,Haring E,Hagemann S,Miller WJ

    更新日期:2001-07-01 00:00:00

  • An unstable minichromosome generates variegated oil yellow maize seedlings.

    abstract::An unstable minichromosome comprising part of the short arm of chromosome 10 of maize was recovered from an oil yellow variegated plant as a consequence of gamma irradiation of pollen. The cytological and gene dosage observations are consistent with the minichromosome being a partial isochromosome, which lags at mitot...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00352297

    authors: Brock RD,Pryor AJ

    更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00

  • Re-evaluating the role of Tao1 in the spindle checkpoint.

    abstract::The spindle checkpoint restrains anaphase onset and mitotic exit until all chromosomes are stably attached to the mitotic spindle via their kinetochores. The Tao1 protein kinase was recently reported as a novel spindle checkpoint component. When an siRNA was used to repress Tao1, the essential spindle checkpoint compo...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-010-0261-1

    authors: Westhorpe FG,Diez MA,Gurden MD,Tighe A,Taylor SS

    更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00

  • Divergence in centromere structure distinguishes related genomes in Coix lacryma-jobi and its wild relative.

    abstract::Knowledge about the composition and structure of centromeres is critical for understanding how centromeres perform their functional roles. Here, we report the sequences of one centromere-associated bacterial artificial chromosome clone from a Coix lacryma-jobi library. Two Ty3/gypsy-class retrotransposons, centromeric...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-009-0239-z

    authors: Han Y,Wang G,Liu Z,Liu J,Yue W,Song R,Zhang X,Jin W

    更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00

  • The action of ultraviolet light on the patterns of banding induced by restriction endonucleases in human chromosomes.

    abstract::The irradiation of metaphase spreads of human cells with ultraviolet (UV) light blocked the chromosome banding induced by Alu I, Mbo I, Dde I, Hinf I, Hae III, and Rsa I restriction endonucleases. At 13 J/m2 there was moderate inhibition of the nuclease action, which was detected as an increase in the stain intensity ...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00292450

    authors: Bianchi NO,Bianchi MS,Cleaver JE

    更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00

  • Leagues of their own: sexually dimorphic features of meiotic prophase I.

    abstract::Meiosis is a conserved cell division process that is used by sexually reproducing organisms to generate haploid gametes. Males and females produce different end products of meiosis: eggs (females) and sperm (males). In addition, these unique end products demonstrate sex-specific differences that occur throughout meios...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-019-00692-x

    authors: Cahoon CK,Libuda DE

    更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00

  • The 14/15 association as a paradigmatic example of tracing karyotype evolution in New World monkeys.

    abstract::Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), especially chromosome painting, has been extensively exploited in the phylogenetic reconstruction of primate evolution. Although chromosome painting is a key method to map translocations, it is not effective in detecting chromosome inversions, which may be up to four times mo...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-015-0565-2

    authors: Capozzi O,Archidiacono N,Lorusso N,Stanyon R,Rocchi M

    更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00

  • Chromosome core structure revealed by silver staining.

    abstract::Chromosomes were subjected to either prolonged hypotonic solution pretreatment or aging. Both conditions greatly loosened and dispersed the overlying epichromatin from the central chromosome core structure. This was followed by silver staining and examination with bright-field microscopy. The chromosome core selective...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00294845

    authors: Howell WM,Hsu TC

    更新日期:1979-06-21 00:00:00

  • Nucleolar targeting of coilin is regulated by its hypomethylation state.

    abstract::Coilin, a molecular marker for Cajal bodies (CBs), is a phosphoprotein that contains a cryptic nucleolar localization signal and multiple interacting domains, such as the RG-box. Post-translational symmetrical dimethylation of arginines on the coilin RG-box is required for the recruitment of the survival motor neuron ...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-010-0276-7

    authors: Tapia O,Bengoechea R,Berciano MT,Lafarga M

    更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00

  • Q- and C-bands in the metaphase chromosomes of Drosophila nasutoides.

    abstract::The large heterochromatic chromosome of Drosophila nasutoides reveals distinctive C- and Q-bands. The regions which are negative in C-banding appear positive in Q-banding. The isochromosomic nature of this chromosome and the locality of the satellite DNAs in this chromosome are discussed with respect to these banding ...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00292680

    authors: Lee CS,Collins L

    更新日期:1977-04-27 00:00:00

  • Transcriptomic and nuclear architecture of immune cells after LPS activation.

    abstract::Changes in the nuclear positioning of specific genes, depending on their expression status, have been observed in a large diversity of physiological processes. However, gene position is poorly documented for immune cells which have been subjected to activation following bacterial infection. Using a pig model, we focus...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-011-0328-7

    authors: Solinhac R,Mompart F,Martin P,Robelin D,Pinton P,Iannuccelli E,Lahbib-Mansais Y,Oswald IP,Yerle-Bouissou M

    更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00

  • Binding of sequences from the 5'- and 3'-nontranscribed spacers of the rat rDNA locus to the nucleolar matrix.

    abstract::Nucleolar matrix structures were obtained under different extraction conditions from highly purified isolated nucleoli. Their ultrastructural appearance, protein composition and capacity to bind rDNA preferentially were studied in a model binding system. A region spanning approximately 25 kb in the rat ribosomal gene ...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00352403

    authors: Stephanova E,Stancheva R,Avramova Z

    更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00

  • The perichromosomal layer.

    abstract::In addition to genetic information, mitotic chromosomes transmit essential components for nuclear assembly and function in a new cell cycle. A specialized chromosome domain, called the perichromosomal layer, perichromosomal sheath, chromosomal coat, or chromosome surface domain, contains proteins required for a variet...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1007/s00412-005-0021-9

    authors: Van Hooser AA,Yuh P,Heald R

    更新日期:2005-12-01 00:00:00

  • A group of non-Y encoded Drosophila hydei primary spermatocyte nuclear glycoproteins exhibits epitopes depending on formation of Y chromosomal giant lampbrush loops.

    abstract::In wild-type Drosophila hydei (genotype X/Y) four different primary spermatocyte nuclear glycoproteins, classified as non-Y encoded because of their occurrence in X/O genotypes, were demonstrated to possess a few epitopes that depended on formation of the Y chromosomal giant lampbrush loops threads (th; Mr 55,000 prot...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00291050

    authors: Tischendorf G,Liebrich W,Trapitz P,Wood G,Schwochau M

    更新日期:1989-08-01 00:00:00

  • Gene-sized DNA molecules of the macronuclei in three species of hypotrichs: size distributions and absence of nicks. DNA of ciliated protozoa. VIII.

    abstract::Macronuclear DNA s from three related hypotrichous ciliated protozoans were compared by agarose gel electrophoresis. Each was shown to be composed of DNA duplexes that yielded a unique pattern of bands overlying a continuous distribution of DNA sizes ranging from approximately 400 bp to approximately 20,000 bp. By EM,...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00329546

    authors: Swanton MT,Heumann JM,Prescott DM

    更新日期:1980-01-01 00:00:00

  • A high resolution study of the DNA replication patterns of chinese hamster chromosomes using sister chromatid differential staining technique.

    abstract::Chinese hamster cells were grown for 1+ and 2+ cell cycles in the presence of BrdU and then treated by the sister chromatid differential staining technique (SCD). Those regions of a chromosome which had replicated twice in the presence of BrdU were pale staining and by selecting appropriate metaphase cells an accurate...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00364018

    authors: Crossen PE,Pathak S,Arrighi FE

    更新日期:1975-11-11 00:00:00

  • Differential basic nucleoprotein kinetics in the two kinds of Lepidoptera spermatids: nucleate (eupyrene) and anucleate (apyrene).

    abstract::Normal lepidopteran males produce two kinds of spermatozoa: nucleate (eupyrene) and anucleate (apyrene). Eupyrene spermatozoa have the usual type of elongate nuclei. But in apyrene spermatids, the nuclei never elongate and the chromatin remains in a telophase-like condition until enucleation occurs. The study of the d...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00330361

    authors: Friedländer M,Hauschteck-Jungen E

    更新日期:1982-01-01 00:00:00

  • Variable region V1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 18S rRNA participates in biogenesis and function of the small ribosomal subunit.

    abstract::The role of helix 6, which forms the major portion of the most 5'-located expansion segment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 18S rRNA, was studied by in vivo mutational analysis. Mutations that increased the size of the helical part and/or the loop, even to a relatively small extent, abolished 18S rRNA formation almost com...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF02510489

    authors: van Nues RW,Venema J,Planta RJ,Raué HA

    更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00

  • Identification of Porto-1, a new repeated sequence that localises close to the centromere of chromosome 2 of Drosophila melanogaster.

    abstract::We have used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to search the Drosophila melanogaster genome for the presence of sequences with homology to mammalian and yeast centromeric DNA. Using primers based on the human CENP-B box present in alpha-satellite DNA and part of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDEIII centrome...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:

    authors: Coelho PA,Nurminsky D,Hartl D,Sunkel CE

    更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00

  • Cytogenetic and immuno-FISH analysis of the 4q subtelomeric region, which is associated with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

    abstract::Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by the shortening of a copy-number polymorphic array of 3.3 kb repeats (D4Z4) at one allelic 4q35.2 region. How this contraction of a subtelomeric tandem array causes FSHD is unknown but indirect evidence suggests that a short array has a cis effect on a distant ...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-004-0280-x

    authors: Yang F,Shao C,Vedanarayanan V,Ehrlich M

    更新日期:2004-05-01 00:00:00

  • The cenpB gene is not essential in mice.

    abstract::Centromere protein B (CENP-B) is a centromeric DNA-binding protein that binds to alpha-satellite DNA at the 17 bp CENP-B box sequence. The binding of CENP-B, along with other proteins, to alpha-satellite DNA sequences at the centromere, is thought to package the DNA into heterochromatin subjacent to the kinetochore of...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s004120050343

    authors: Kapoor M,Montes de Oca Luna R,Liu G,Lozano G,Cummings C,Mancini M,Ouspenski I,Brinkley BR,May GS

    更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00

  • Persistence of DNA threads in human anaphase cells suggests late completion of sister chromatid decatenation.

    abstract::PICH (Plk1-interacting checkpoint helicase) was recently identified as an essential component of the spindle assembly checkpoint and shown to localize to kinetochores, inner centromeres, and thin threads connecting separating chromosomes even during anaphase. In this paper, we have used immuno-fiber fluorescence in si...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/s00412-007-0131-7

    authors: Wang LH,Schwarzbraun T,Speicher MR,Nigg EA

    更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00

  • Heterochromatin and nucleolus-organizer-region behaviour at male pachytene of Sus scrofa domestica.

    abstract::In the domestic pig (2n = 38) two types of constitutive heterochromatin can be differentiated by fluorescence counterstaining techniques. All 24 biarmed autosomes and the X chromosome have chromomycin A3-positive centromeric C-bands, whereas all 12 acrocentric chromosomes exhibit DA-DAPI-positive centromeric heterochr...

    journal_title:Chromosoma

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1007/BF00286480

    authors: Schwarzacher T,Mayr B,Schweizer D

    更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00