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XB-ART-27264
Mol Cell Biol 1988 Oct 01;810:4257-69. doi: 10.1128/mcb.8.10.4257-4269.1988.
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Characterization of the repressed 5S DNA minichromosomes assembled in vitro with a high-speed supernatant of Xenopus laevis oocytes.

Shimamura A , Tremethick D , Worcel A .


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We describe an in vitro system, based on the Xenopus laevis oocyte supernatant of Glikin et al. (G. Glikin, I. Ruberti, and A. Worcel, Cell 37:33-41, 1984), that packages DNA into minichromosomes with regularly spaced nucleosomes containing histones H3, H4, H2A, and H2B but no histone H1. The same supernatant also assembles the 5S RNA transcription complex; however, under the conditions that favor chromatin assembly, transcription is inhibited and a phased nucleosome forms over the 5S RNA gene. The minichromosomes that are fully loaded with nucleosomes remain refractory to transcriptional activation by 5S RNA transcription factors. Our data suggest that this repression is caused by a nucleosome covering the 5S RNA gene and that histone H1 is not required for regular nucleosome spacing or for gene repression in this system.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: h2ac21 h2bc21 tbx2

References [+] :
Adamson, Histone synthesis in early amphibian development: histone and DNA syntheses are not co-ordinated. 1974, Pubmed, Xenbase