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. 1971 Apr;122(2):189–195. doi: 10.1042/bj1220189

Template activity of chromatin during stimulation of cellular proliferation in human diploid fibroblasts

John Farber 1, Giovanni Rovera 1, Renato Baserga 1
PMCID: PMC1176762  PMID: 5165706

Abstract

1. Contact-inhibited confluent monolayers of WI-38 human diploid fibroblasts can be stimulated to divide by replacing the medium with fresh medium containing 30% foetal calf serum. 2. Of the cells 40–75% are stimulated to divide with a peak DNA synthesis between 15 and 21h and a peak mitotic index between 28 and 30h after stimulation. 3. In the first 12h before the initiation of DNA synthesis there is a biphasic increase in the incorporation of [3H]uridine into RNA of whole cells. 4. This is paralleled by a similar biphasic stimulation of chromatin template activity measured in vitro in a system in which purified cell chromatin is incubated with an exogenous RNA polymerase isolated from Escherichia coli. 5. The changes in chromatin template activity are believed to represent activation of the genome, with more sites available for RNA synthesis, and to account almost entirely for the changes in RNA synthesis occurring in the whole cell.

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