Characterization of macronuclear DNA in five species of ciliates.

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

authors： Van Hooser AA,Yuh P,Heald R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that centromere-specific 155 bp DNA repeats terminate one pair of telomeres at the telocentric, left end of the short fourth chromosome in Chironomus pallidivittatus. Earlier evidence indicated that all other telomeres are terminated by 340 bp telomere-specific repeats. DNA that borders the 155 bp ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Rosén M,Castillejo-López C,Edström JE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By taking advantage of the fact that fluorescent light (FL) induces strand breaks only in bromodeoxyuridine(BrdUy-substituted DNA, and that those breaks eventually lead to the formation of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs), the response of SCEs to FL was studied carefully in Chinese hamster chromosomes in which, out o...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Kato H

更新日期：1977-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the subjects within the meiotic field that has been actively investigated in the recent years is the temporal and functional relationships between meiotic recombination, cohesin loading and synaptonemal complex (SC) assembly. Although the study of meiotic mutants has shed some light, many questions remain to be...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Viera A,Santos JL,Rufas JS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Phaseolus L. has been subject of extensive cytogenetic studies due to its global economic importance. It is considered karyotypically stable, with most of its ca. 75 species having 2n = 22 chromosomes, and only three species (Phaseolus leptostachyus, Phaseolus macvaughii, and Phaseolus micranthus), which for...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Fonsêca A,Ferraz ME,Pedrosa-Harand A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different inversion heterozygotes of maize were examined for the occurrence of synaptic adjustment. Three substages of pachytene were identified in synaptonemal complex (SC) spreads using side-by-side comparisons of chromosome squashes with two-dimensional spreads of SCs. In SC spreads, inversion loop frequency d...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Anderson LK,Stack SM,Sherman JD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought for cloned sequences of middle repetitive (MR) complexity that mark obligatory heterochromatic regions. Total genome probes were employed in a differential screening procedure to recover X-specific, Y-specific and autosomal specific heterochromatic sequences. X-and Y-linked sequences were recovered in the sa...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Lifschytz E,Hareven D

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Macronuclear DNA was isolated from Paramecium primaurelia, stock 168. Although the macronucleus is polyploid to the extent of 840C, in other respect the DNA appears to be simply organized, having neither satellite sequences nor substantial amounts of intermediately repetitive sequence. The sequence complexity of macro...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： McTavish C,Sommerville J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the MCPH1 gene result in primary microcephaly in combination with a unique cellular phenotype of defective chromosome condensation. MCPH1 patient cells display premature chromosome condensation in G2 phase of the cell cycle and delayed decondensation in early G1 phase, observable as an increased proportio...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Arroyo M,Trimborn M,Sánchez A,Hirano T,Neitzel H,Marchal JA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:At meiotic prophase the chromatin becomes arranged in loops on newly formed chromosome cores. The cores of homologous chromosomes become aligned in parallel and thus form the synaptonemal complex (SC), a structure found in the meiocytes of nearly all recombinationally competent, sexually reproducing organisms. We repo...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Moens PB,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of parental genomes has attracted much interest because intranuclear chromosome distribution can modulate the transcriptome of cells and influence the efficacy of meiotic homologue pairing. Pairing of parental chromosomes is imperative to sexual reproduction as it translates into homologue seg...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Scherthan H,Schöfisch K,Dell T,Illner D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced and analyzed 8.3 kb of sequence adjacent and distal to the human ribosomal DNA (rDNA); this distal sequence connects to the rDNA cluster just 4 kb upstream of the first promoter and is shared among the acrocentric chromosomes and, at least in part, it is also present in other primates. The sequence d...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Gonzalez IL,Sylvester JE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the prominent cell cycle-related modifications of histone proteins whose function remains unresolved is the phosphorylation of linker histone H1. In this work we have used indirect immunofluorescence on human cells with antibodies that are specific for phosphorylated histone H1 to examine the cellular distribut...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Boggs BA,Allis CD,Chinault AC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Smc5/6 complex, along with cohesin and condensin, is a member of the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) family, large ring-like protein complexes that are essential for chromatin structure and function. Thanks to numerous studies of the mitotic cell cycle, Smc5/6 has been implicated to have roles in homolo...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Verver DE,Hwang GH,Jordan PW,Hamer G

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, X-inactivation process is achieved by the cis-spreading of long noncoding Xist RNA over one of the female X chromosomes. The Xist binding accumulates histones H3 methylation and H4 hypoacetylation required for X inactivation that leads to proper dosage compensation of the X-linked genes. Co-transcription o...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Kota SK,Roy Chowdhury D,Rao LK,Padmalatha V,Singh L,Bhadra U

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BrdU-substituted Chinese hamster chromosomes were treated with a hog Na2HPO4 solution and stained with Giemsa to produce sister chromatid differential staining (SCD). The process of SCD was examined with the Nomarski differential interference microscope and the scanning electron microscope. After the Na2HPO4 treatment...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Takayama S,Utsumi KR,Sasaki Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is described which allows the purification of large quantities of nuclei (germinal vesicles) from Xenopus laevis vitellogenic oocytes of different developmental stages. From the isolated nuclei, purified nucleoli were obtained. The isolated germinal vesicles are transcriptionally active showing endogenous...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Scalenghe F,Buscaglia M,Steinheil C,Crippa M

更新日期：1978-05-16 00:00:00

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

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

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome can be roughly divided into euchromatin and heterochromatin domains that are structurally and functionally distinct. Heterochromatin is characterized by its high compaction that impedes DNA transactions such as gene transcription, replication, or recombination. Beyond its role in regulating DNA a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Nikolov I,Taddei A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Bianchi NO,Bianchi MS,Cleaver JE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Brock RD,Pryor AJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes are organized in large chromatin domains that maintain proper gene activity in the cell. These domains may be permissive or repressive to the transcription of underlying genes. Based on its protein makeup, chromatin in Drosophila cell culture has been recently categorized into five color-coded state...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Maksimov DA,Koryakov DE,Belyakin SN

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered minichromosomes provide efficient platforms for stacking transgenes in crop plants. Methods for modifying these chromosomes in vivo are essential for the development of customizable systems for the removal of selection genes or other sequences and for the addition of new genes. Previous studies have demonst...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Gaeta RT,Masonbrink RE,Zhao C,Sanyal A,Krishnaswamy L,Birchler JA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of RNA molecules per cell (transcriptome size) is highly variable, differing among and within cell types depending on cell size, stage of the cell cycle, ploidy level, age, disease state, and growth condition. Such variation has been observed at the level of total RNA, ribosomal RNA, messenger RNA (mRNA), a...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Coate JE,Doyle JJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was conducted to determine the relationship between Y chromosome loss and increased micronucleus formation with age. We also investigated the status of kinetochore proteins in the micronuclei. Umbilical cord blood samples were obtained from 18 newborn males, and peripheral blood was obtained from 35...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Nath J,Tucker JD,Hando JC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00