Mammalian sex chromosomes. I. Cytological changes in the chiasmatic sex chromosomes of the male musk shrew, Suncus murinus.

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

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

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While many studies have provided significant insight into homolog pairing during meiosis, information on non-homologous pairing is much less abundant. In the present study, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to investigate non-homologous pairing in haploid rice during meiosis. At pachytene, non-homolog...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Gong Z,Liu X,Tang D,Yu H,Yi C,Cheng Z,Gu M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrosatellites are large polymorphic tandem arrays. The human subtelomeric macrosatellite D4Z4 has 11-150 repeats, each containing a copy of the intronless DUX4 gene. DUX4 is linked to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, but its normal function is unknown. The DUX gene family includes DUX4, the intronless Dux mac...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Leidenroth A,Clapp J,Mitchell LM,Coneyworth D,Dearden FL,Iannuzzi L,Hewitt JE

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The XY bivalent contained within the sex vesicle of chromosomally normal male mice shows virtually no RNA transcriptional activity as measured by autoradiography during the prophase of meiosis. Tertiary trisomic males, derived from the T 70 H and T 31 H reciprocal translocations, include the extra small marker chromos...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Speed RM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogenic cells of the mouse have been separated by gravity sedimentation using a modification of a previously published method. Details are given for the collection of purified samples of specific meiotic stages and for the collection of labelled cell fractions following injection of 3H-thymidine. Suppression of ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Chandley AC,Hotta Y,Stern H

更新日期：1977-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks arise accidentally upon exposure of DNA to radiation and chemicals or result from faulty DNA metabolic processes. DNA breaks can also be introduced in a programmed manner, such as during the maturation of the immune system, meiosis, or cancer chemo- or radiotherapy. Cells have developed a vari...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Ranjha L,Howard SM,Cejka P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple repeated GATA and GACA sequences which were originally isolated from sex-specific snake satellite DNA have been found subsequently in all eukaryotes studied. The organization of these sequences within the mouse genome was investigated here by using synthetic oligonucleotide probes as a novel tool in comparison ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Schäfer R,Ali S,Epplen JT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative nucleolus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is visible in electron micrographs as a darkly stained, crescent-shaped structure associated with the nuclear envelope. The haploid yeast genome contains 100-200 tandem copies of a 9.1 kb ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat predicted to reside in this structure. We combined i...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dvorkin N,Clark MW,Hamkalo BA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Higgins JM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To structurally dissect mitotic chromosomes, we aim to position along the folded chromatin fiber proteins involved in long-range order, such as topoisomerase IIalpha (topoIIalpha) and condensin. Immuno-electron microscopy (EM) of thin-sectioned chromosomes is the method of choice toward this goal. A much-improved immu...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Maeshima K,Eltsov M,Laemmli UK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeric DNA is present at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and is bound by telomere "capping" proteins, which are the (Cdc13-Stn1-Ten1) CST complex, Ku (Yku70-Yku80), and Rap1-Rif1-Rif2 in budding yeast. Inactivation of any of these complexes causes telomere "uncapping," stimulating a DNA damage response (DDR) tha...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dewar JM,Lydall D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have the ability to integrate into the genome of their host, in many cases with little apparent sequence or site specificity. However, relatively few studies have addressed more general features of chromosomal integration. In this study we directly visualized the chromosomal organization of three represen...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Taruscio D,Manuelidis L

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-hybrid system was used to identify proteins that interact with the central conserved domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA topoisomerase I. Several different C-terminal domain-containing fragments of topoisomerase I, none of which overlapped with the central domain, were identified as specific interacting pol...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Park H,Sternglanz R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic prophase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is characterized by striking nuclear movements and the formation of linear elements along chromosomes instead of tripartite synaptonemal complexes. We analysed the organization of nuclei and microtubules in cells of fission yeasts undergoing sexual differentiation. S. japo...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Svoboda A,Bähler J,Kohli J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Balbiani rings in the salivary gland polytene chromosomes of Chironomus tentans include the most active structural genes in this organ. Two of them (BR1 and BR2) contain repetitive sequences and are transcribed into giant RNA molecules. On Southern blots of restriction digests, we have identified fragments of geno...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Degelmann A,Hollenberg CP

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

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

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

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of quinacrine and protein sulphur has been compared with that of DNA in euchromatic and heterochromatic regions of mouse chromosomes stained with the fluorescent dye quinacrine, using X-ray microanalysis. Heterochromatin tends to bind relatively more quinacrine than euchromatin, and contains a greater...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Sumner AT

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for excising by a glass knife single bands of isolated polytene chromosomes of the salivary glands of Chironomus tentans larvae. DNA strands were isolated from cut-out bands and their contour lengths were determined on electron micrographs. The mean contour length of DNA strands isolated from the...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Frey M,Koller T,Lezzi M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aurora-A is a conserved mitotic kinase overexpressed in many types of cancer. Growing evidence shows that Aurora-A plays a crucial role in DNA damage response (DDR) although this aspect has been less characterized. We isolated a new aur-A mutation, named aur-A949, in Drosophila, and we showed that it causes chromosome...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Merigliano C,Mascolo E,Cesta A,Saggio I,Vernì F

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data suggest that insulators organize chromatin architecture in the nucleus. The best characterized Drosophila insulator, found in the gypsy retrotransposon, contains 12 binding sites for the Su(Hw) protein. Enhancer blocking, along with Su(Hw), requires BTB/POZ domain proteins, Mod(mdg4)-67.2 and CP190. Inacti...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Melnikova L,Shapovalov I,Kostyuchenko M,Georgiev P,Golovnin A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

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

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

abstract：:The divergence of lineages leading to extant squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) and birds occurred about 275 million years ago. Birds, unlike squamates, have karyotypes that are typified by the presence of a number of very small chromosomes. Hence, a number of chromosome rearrangements might be ex...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Pokorná M,Giovannotti M,Kratochvíl L,Kasai F,Trifonov VA,O'Brien PC,Caputo V,Olmo E,Ferguson-Smith MA,Rens W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BrdU-33258 Hoechst techniques have been used to characterize DNA replication patterns in lymphocytes from hunam females with supernumerary or structurally abnormal X chromosomes. Fluorescence analysis permits identification of late replicating X chromosomes in a very high proportion of cells and affords a high resolut...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Latt SA,Willard HF,Gerald PS

更新日期：1976-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand how microtubules interact in forming the mitotic apparatus and orienting and moving chromosomes, the precise arrangement of microtubules in kinetochore fibers in Chinese hamster ovary cells was examined. Individual microtubules were traced, using high voltage electron microscopy of serial 0.25 micron sec...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Witt PL,Ris H,Borisy GG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of stable kinetochore-microtubule attachments is essential for accurate chromosome segregation in human cells and depends on the NDC80 complex. We recently showed that Chmp4c, an endosomal sorting complex required for transport protein involved in membrane remodelling, localises to prometaphase kinetochores ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Petsalaki E,Dandoulaki M,Zachos G

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microspore culture stimulates immature pollen grains to develop into plants via tissue culture and is used routinely in many crop species to produce "doubled haploids": homozygous, true-breeding lines. However, microspore culture is also often used on material that does not have stable meiosis, such as interspecific h...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Mwathi MW,Schiessl SV,Batley J,Mason AS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using BrdU/Hoechst 33258/Giemsa methods for detecting replicating chromosome bands, a method is described by which the DNA synthesis phase may be sub-divided on the basis of distinctive patterns displayed by certain chromosomes.--Applied to asynchronous populations successively sampled through one cell cycle, cells in...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Savage JR,Bhunya SP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulator proteins orchestrate the three-dimensional organization of the genome. Insulators function by facilitating communications between regulatory sequences and gene promoters, allowing accurate gene transcription regulation during embryo development and cell differentiation. However, the role of insulator protein...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Hsu SJ,Stow EC,Simmons JR,Wallace HA,Lopez AM,Stroud S,Labrador M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis) has a karyotype of 2n=6 in the female and 7 in the male, the karyotypic evolution of which through extensive tandem fusions and several centric fusions has been well-documented by recent molecular cytogenetic studies. In an attempt to define the fusion orientations of c...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Chi JX,Huang L,Nie W,Wang J,Su B,Yang F

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using indirect immunofluorescence visualization techniques we investigated the distribution of RNA polymerase B (or II) and histone H1 at heat shock puff loci in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes at different times during and after heat shock. After heat treatments of from 5 to 45 min, the heat shock puff d...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Greenleaf AL,Plagens U,Jamrich M,Bautz EK

更新日期：1978-01-16 00:00:00