RNA and macronuclear transcription in the ciliate Stylonychia mytilus.

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

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

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel rearranged human Y chromosome consisting of an inverted duplication of the long arm heterochromatin and a small amount of euchromatin: rea(Y)(qter-q11.2::q11.2-qter). The normal centromere has been deleted and a neocentromere containing CENP-A, -C, -E and Mad2 but not CENP-B has formed close to the...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Floridia G,Gimelli G,Zuffardi O,Earnshaw WC,Warburton PE,Tyler-Smith C

更新日期：2000-01-01 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

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：:Allopolyploidy and homoeologous recombination are two important processes in reshaping genomes and generating evolutionary novelties. Newly formed allopolyploids usually display chromosomal perturbations as a result of pairing errors at meiosis. To understand mechanisms of stabilization of allopolyploid species derive...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Wang Y,Zhao Q,Qin X,Yang S,Li Z,Li J,Lou Q,Chen J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of interphase chromatin spans many topics, ranging in scale from the molecular level to the whole nucleus, and its study requires a concomitant range of experimental approaches. In this review, we examine these approaches, the results they have generated, and the interfaces between them. The greatest ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Horowitz-Scherer RA,Woodcock CL

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian heterochromatin proteins 1 (HP1alpha, HP1beta, and HP1gamma) are nonhistone proteins that interact in vitro with a set of proteins that play a role in chromatin silencing, transcription, and chromatin remodeling. Using antibodies specific for each HP1 isoform, we showed that they segregate in distinct nuclea...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Minc E,Allory Y,Worman HJ,Courvalin JC,Buendia B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feulgen cytophotometric measurements of neuroblasts in the first and third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster reveal the same DNA content for metaphases with chromosomes of different size. The total absorbance of all measured metaphases gives the four-fold value of that of the spermatids. Accordingly there seem ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： van de Flierdt K

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction in chromosome number during meiosis is essential for the production of haploid germ cells and thereby fertility. To achieve this, homologous chromosomes are first synapsed together by a protein assembly, the synaptonemal complex (SC), which permits genetic exchange by crossing over and the subsequent acc...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dunne OM,Davies OR

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Quinacrine (Q-band) and centromeric heterochromatin (C-band) patterns of metaphase chromosomes of two subspecies of Mus musculus were compared. M.m. musculus (the laboratory mouse) and M.m. molossinus (a subspecies from Southeast Asia) had similar Q-band patterns along the length of the chromosomes, but differences we...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dev VG,Miller DA,Tantravahi R,Schreck RR,Roderick TH,Erlanger BF,Miller OJ

更新日期：1975-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 204 mutations located in the 8-12 band Df(2L)130 region, 37B9-C1,2;37D1-2, 199 have been assigned to twelve lethal genes and one visible gene (hook). The 13 genes are not evenly distributed. Twelve, (possibly all thirteen) are in the seven band region 37B10-C4 giving a gene-to-band ratio of almost two. Only one gen...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Wright TR,Beermann W,Marsh JL,Bishop CP,Steward R,Black BC,Tomsett AD,Wright EY

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the Robertsonian polymorphism in the Atlantic dog-whelk, Nucella lapillus (2n = 26-36), have been limited by the inability to identify unequivocally individual chromosomes in the karyotype. This species, as with many other marine invertebrates, has proven largely refractory to the standard (mammali...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Pascoe PL,Patton SJ,Critcher R,Dixon DR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Cahoon CK,Libuda DE

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step during eukaryotic initiation of DNA replication is the correct loading and activation of the replicative DNA helicase, which ensures that each replication origin fires only once. Unregulated DNA helicase loading and activation, as it occurs in cancer, can cause severe DNA damage and genomic instability....

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Tognetti S,Riera A,Speck C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is an essential mechanism to compensate gene dosage in mammals. Here, we show that XCI has evolved differently in two species of the genus Tokudaia. The Amami spiny rat, Tokudaia osimensis, has a single X chromosome in males and females (XO/XO). By contrast, the Okinawa spiny rat, Tokud...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Zushi H,Murata C,Mizushima S,Nishida C,Kuroiwa A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin in eukaryotic interphase cells frequently localizes to the nucleolar periphery (nucleolus-associated domains (NADs)) and the nuclear lamina (lamina-associated domains (LADs)). Gene expression in somatic cell NADs is generally low, but NADs have not been characterized in mammalian stem cells. Here, we g...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Bizhanova A,Yan A,Yu J,Zhu LJ,Kaufman PD

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of DNA in the condensed interphase chromosomes of Euglena was determined by immunoelectron microscopy. Deposits of gold particles that coincided with the localization of DNA followed threads that corresponded to the chromatin fibers. The threads were 55-80nm in diameter and were assumed to be supersol...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Ueda K,Hayashi-Ishimaru Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best-studied Drosophila insulator complex consists of two BTB-containing proteins, the Mod(mdg4)-67.2 isoform and CP190, which are recruited cooperatively to chromatin through interactions with the DNA-binding architectural protein Su(Hw). While Mod(mdg4)-67.2 interacts only with Su(Hw), CP190 interacts with many ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Melnikova L,Kostyuchenko M,Molodina V,Parshikov A,Georgiev P,Golovnin A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) were first discovered in genetic screens for regulators of developmental timing in the stem-cell-like seam cell lineage in Caenorhabditis elegans. As members of the heterochronic pathway, the lin-4 and let-7 miRNAs are required in the seam cells for the correct progression of stage-specific events a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Nimmo RA,Slack FJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is an essential mitotic regulator and undergoes periodic phosphorylation on threonine 210, a conserved residue in the kinase's activation loop. While phosphate-mimicking alterations of T210 stimulate Plk1's kinase activity in vitro, their effects on cell cycle regulation in vivo remain contro...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Paschal CR,Maciejowski J,Jallepalli PV

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very few of the middle repetitive DNA sequences found in Drosophila melanogaster are present in all of the species of the D. melanogaster subgroup. One member of the subgroup, D. erecta, lacks most of the families of repetitive elements from D. melanogaster (including copia and 412) but possesses many other families n...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dowsett AP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster was transformed with an 18 kb fragment of the C3 DNA puff of Rhynchosciara americana, including the C3-22 gene and the origins of replication that direct amplification. Different tissues and developmental stages of five independent transgenic lines were analyzed by quantitative Southern blot hy...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Soares MA,Monesi N,Basso LR Jr,Stocker AJ,Paçó-Larson ML,Lara FJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex chromosomes in Sauropsida (reptiles and birds) have evolved independently many times. They show astonishing diversity in morphology ranging from cryptic to highly differentiated sex chromosomes with male (XX/XY) and female heterogamety (ZZ/ZW). Comparing such diverse sex chromosome systems thus provides unpara...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Matsubara K,O'Meally D,Azad B,Georges A,Sarre SD,Graves JA,Matsuda Y,Ezaz T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least two types of Robertsonian exchange are now known in the acrocentric chromosomes of man. Both types involve breakage in the arms adjacent to the centromere. Evidence is presented for a third type of exchange, one involving breakage within the centromere itself, in the grasshopper Percassa rugifrons. In this sp...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： John B,Freeman M

更新日期：1975-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electron spectroscopic imaging, a new type of small granular structural constituent has been observed in the extrachromosomal zone of the polytene nucleus of the salivary gland cells of Chironomus thummi and Chironomus tentans. These granules appear isolated or in small clumps and are often seen to be connected ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Vázquez-Nin GH,Echeverría OM,Rouelle-Rossier VB,Fakan S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, the Polycomb group and trithorax group proteins play a critical role in controlling the expression states of homeotic gene complexes during development. The common view is that these two classes of proteins bind to the homeotic complexes and regulate transcription at the level of chromatin. In the prese...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Fanti L,Perrini B,Piacentini L,Berloco M,Marchetti E,Palumbo G,Pimpinelli S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated nuclei of the unicellular alga Olisthodiscus luteus, the uninucleate dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii and the binucleate dinoflagellate Peridinium balticum were lysed and deposited on grids by the microcentrifugation technique. The ultrastructure of the released chromatin fibers was compared to that of m...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Rizzo PJ,Burghardt RC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin protein Polycomb (PC) is necessary for keeping homeotic genes repressed in a permanent and heritable manner. PC is part of a large multimeric complex (PcG proteins) involved in generating silenced chromatin domains at target genes, thus preventing their inappropriate expression. In order to assess the in...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dietzel S,Niemann H,Brückner B,Maurange C,Paro R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00