Protection of expressed immunoglobulin genes against nuclease cleavage.

AUTOR(ES)

Weischet, W O

RESUMO

Fragmentation of the actively transcribed kappa immunoglobulin gene in mouse myeloma nuclei with micrococcal nuclease and the restriction nuclease Bsp RI reveals a chromatin structure without the regularity of repeating nucleosomes found in bulk chromatin. Such regularity is restored about 2.2 kb 3' of the coding region. An only moderately increased micrococcal nuclease sensitivity and a 65% average protection of the Bsp RI sites indicates a DNA-protein interaction in the transcribed region which is not very different from that of an inactive gene. As determined by indirect endlabeling the frequency of Bsp RI cleavage both, after very mild and exhaustive digestion, varied moderately from site to site along the gene. In addition, it was not in each case the same at analogous sites on both alleles which are both transcribed. Thus, the experiments demonstrate differences between the chromatin structures of the genes which may be related to regulatory phenomena and thereby corroborate earlier findings made with DNAase I.

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