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. 1988 May;7(5):1395–1402. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02956.x

A direct link between core histone acetylation and transcriptionally active chromatin.

T R Hebbes 1, A W Thorne 1, C Crane-Robinson 1
PMCID: PMC458389  PMID: 3409869

Abstract

An antiserum raised against chemically acetylated histone H4 was found to recognize the epitope epsilon-N-acetyl lysine. Affinity-purified antibodies were used to fractionate oligo- and mononucleosomal chromatin fragments from the nuclei of 15-day chicken embryo erythrocytes. Antibody-bound chromatin was found to contain elevated levels of acetylated core histones. On probing with sequences of alpha D globin, an actively transcribed gene, the antibody-bound chromatin was 15- to 30-fold enriched relative to the input chromatin. Using ovalbumin sequences as a probe, no enrichment was observed. The results demonstrate directly that transcriptionally active genes carry acetylated core histones.

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