It has been shown that about 50 % of the
whole chromatin DNA exists in a very compact form in calfthymus
chromatin.These compact fragments can be extracted
from the whole chromatin as nuclease resistant fragments
by limited nuclease digestion. These fragments involve four
out of five histones in folding the...
In this work, the four yeast inner histones were prepared by the
use of consecutive slab gel fractionation. The use of this technique
allowed the first complete fractionation and rigorous identification of
the four yeast inner histones, and made possible a study of their
complexing behavior.
Variants and adjuncts of...
The nucleosome appears to be the basic structural unit of the
eukaryotic chromosome. The usual nucleosome preparation, isolated
from a micrococcal nuclease digest of nuclei, is heterogenous in DNA
length and protein composition with some particles containing spacer
DNA and associated protein. This heterogeneity complicated physical
and reconstitution studies. As...
Five forms of chromatin, which represent the in vivo folded forms
of nucleic acid, were isolated and used as the binding substrate for
model intercalating compound, ethidium bromide. For all forms of
chromatin, the affinity, location and structural effects of binding
were examined. On the level of the nucleosome, the...