Influence of DNA topology and histone tails in nucleosome organization on pBR322 DNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Buttinelli, M
RESUMO
Recently, we have found that the assembly of nucleosomes reconstituted on negatively supercoiled DNA is cooperative. In the present paper the role of DNA topology and of histone tails in nucleosome assembly was explored. Reconstituted minichromosomes on relaxed DNA at different histone/DNA ratios (R) were assayed by topological analysis and electron microscopy visualization. Both methods show a linear relationship between average nucleosome number (N) and R. This suggests that in the case of relaxed DNA, cooperative internucleosomal interactions are small or absent. The influence of histone tails in nucleosome assembly was studied on minichromosomes reconstituted with trypsinized histone octamer on negatively supercoiled DNA by topological analysis. The topoisomers distribution, after trypsinization, dramatically changes, indicating that nucleosome-nucleosome interactions are remarkably decreased. These results show that, in chromatin folding, in addition to the well known role of histone H1, the interactions between histone octamer tails and DNA are also of importance.
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