Stability and reversibility of higher ordered structure of interphase chromatin: continuity of deoxyribonucleic acid is not required for maintenance of folded structure.

Abstract:

:The organization of the higher order structure of chromatin has been examined in chicken erythrocyte. Chromatin solubilized during the time course of a gentle micrococcal nuclease digestion of nuclei shows a continuous variation in the distribution of molecular weights. Electron microscopy studies of large chromatin fragments solubilized at physiological ionic strength (0.14 M NaCl or KCl) suggest that the polynucleosome chain is folded in continuous compact structures of an average diameter of 23 nm in which the individual nucleosomes are difficult to distinguish. This compact structure is destabilized even at intermediate ionic strengths (e.g., 40 mM NaCl), resulting in looser fibers of similar diameter. At 5 mM NaCl the fiber is unraveled into a continuous filament of 10-nm diameter. These conformational changes are reversible as determined by hydrodynamic and biochemical parameters. The 10-nm leads to 23-nm transition of chromatin appears to be a cooperative process requiring the full complement of histones H1 and H5. Micrococcal nuclease cleaves the DNA in the compact chromatin structure to an apparent limit of digestion corresponding to an average of eight to nine nucleosomes with little effect on the size of the fiber. Thus, the continuity of the DNA is not required for the stability of the folded chromatin fiber. Histones H1 and H5 exhibit a binding preference to larger chromatin fragments regardless of the length of the DNA. This behavior is not observed with relaxed chromatin, suggesting that multiple stabilizing interactions involving H1 (H5) are possible only in the compact configuration.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Ruiz-Carrillo A,Puigdomènech P,Eder G,Lurz R

doi

10.1021/bi00553a002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1980-06-10 00:00:00

pages

2544-54

issue

12

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

19

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