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1977 Mar 16;602:147-67. doi: 10.1007/bf00288462.
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Lengths and patterns of transcriptional units in the amplified nucleoli of oocytes of Xenopus laevis.
Scheer U
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Trendelenburg MF
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Krohne G
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Franke WW
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Transcriptionally active chromatin from peripheral amplified nucleoli of lampbrush-chromosome stage oocytes of Xenopus laevis was dispersed and spread in various solutions of low salt concentrations (including some with additions of detergents) and examined by electron microscopy. Nucleolar material from oocytes of animals with normal (2-nu) and mutant (1-nu) genetical constitution of nucleolus organizers was compared. Histograms showing the distributions of the length of matrix units, apparent spacer intercepts, and the total repeating units of the rDNA containing chromatin axes revealed a significant degree of heterogeity, with indications of subclasses and predominant repeat unit size classes of 3.3 amd 3.8 micron length. The correspondence of matrix unit length to the molecular weight of the first stable product of rDNA transcription was studied using gel electrophoresis of labelled pre-rRNA under non-denaturing and denaturing conditions. Evaluations of individual strands of nucleolar chromatin further demonstrated the existence of both (i) strands with obviously homogeneous repeating units of and (ii) strands with intra-axial heterogeneity of rDNA subunits. "Prelude complexes", i.e. groups of transcriptional complexes in apparent spacer intercepts, were not infrequently noted. The data are compared with the measurements of lengths of repeating units in fragments of rDNA obtained by digestion with EcoRI endonuclease as described by Morrow et al.(1974) and Wellauer et al. (1974,1976a, b). The results are discussed in relation to problems of variations in the modes of arrangement of the pre-rRNA genes, the state of packing of rDNA during transcription, and possible mechanisms of the amplification process.
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