Role of the histone "tails" in the folding of oligonucleosomes depleted of histone H1 - PubMed (original) (raw)
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Role of the histone "tails" in the folding of oligonucleosomes depleted of histone H1
M Garcia-Ramirez et al. J Biol Chem. 1992.
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Abstract
An oligonucleosome 12-mer was reconstituted in the absence of linker histones, onto a DNA template consisting of 12 tandemly arranged 208-base pair fragments of the 5 S rRNA gene from the sea urchin Ly-techinus variegatus (Simpson, R. T., Thoma, F. S., and Burbaker, J. M. (1985) Cell 42, 799-808). The ionic strength-dependent folding of this nucleohistone complex was compared with that of a native oligonucleosome fraction obtained from chicken erythrocyte chromatin, which had been carefully stripped of linker histones and fractionated in sucrose gradients. The DNA of this native fraction exhibited a narrow size distribution centered around the length of the 208-12 DNA template used in the reconstituted complex. These two complexes displayed very similar hydrodynamic behavior as judged by sedimentation velocity analysis. By combining these data with electron microscopy analysis, it was shown that the salt-dependent folding of oligonucleosomes in the absence of linker histones involves the bending of the linker DNA region connecting adjacent nucleosomes. It was also found that selective removal by trypsin of the N-terminal regions ("tails") of the core histones prevents the oligonucleosome chains from folding. Thus, in the absence of these histone domains, the bending of the linker DNA necessary to bring the nucleosomes in contact is completely abolished. In addition to the complete lack of folding, removal of the histone tails results in an unwinding at low salt of a 20-base pair region at each flanking side of the nucleosome core particle. The possible functional relevance of these results is discussed.
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