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. 1984 Jun 25;12(12):5015–5024. doi: 10.1093/nar/12.12.5015

Reduced repeat length of nascent nucleosomal DNA is generated by replicating chromatin in vivo.

K M Jakob, S Ben Yosef, I Tal
PMCID: PMC318896  PMID: 6739296

Abstract

Micrococcal nuclease digestion of nuclei from sea urchin embryos revealed transient changes in chromatin structure which resulted in a reduction in the repeat length of nascent chromatin DNA as compared with bulk DNA. This was considered to be entirely the consequence of in vivo events at the replication fork (Cell 14, 259, 1978). However, a micrococcal nuclease-generated sliding of nucleosome cores relative to nascent DNA, which might account for the smaller DNA fragments, was not excluded. In vivo [3H]thymidine pulse-labeled nuclei were fixed with a formaldehyde prior to micrococcal nuclease digestion. This linked chromatin proteins to DNA and thus prevented any in vitro sliding of histone cores. All the nascent DNAs exhibiting shorter repeat lengths after micrococcal nuclease digestion, were resolved at identical mobilities in polyacrylamide gels of DNA from fixed and unfixed nuclei. We conclude that these differences in repeat lengths between nascent and bulk DNA was generated in vivo by changes in chromatin structure during replication, rather than by micrococcal nuclease-induced sliding of histone cores in vitro.

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