Hydrodynamic shearing by VirTis blending conserves nucleosome structure of rat liver chromatin |
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Authors: | LV Rodriguez J-N Lapeyre DL Robberson AL Maizel FF Becker |
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Institution: | 1. The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Section of Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Houston, Texas, 77030 U.S.A.;2. The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Section of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, Houston, Texas, 77030 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The effects of VirTis shearing on chromatin subunit structure were investigated by enzymatic digestion, thermal denaturation, and electron microscopy. While initial rates of micrococcal nuclease and DNase I digestion were greater postshearing, limit digest values were similar to those for unsheared chromatin. Fractionated chromatin digestion kinetics varied with sedimentation. Digestion of all chromatins produced monomer and dimer DNA fragment lengths, but only unsheared chromatins exhibited higher order nucleosome oligomer lengths. Mononucleosomes and core particles were resolved in digests of sheared and gradient fractions analyzed by electrophoresis. All chromatins exposed to DNase I showed discrete 10-base pair nicking patterns. The presence of nucleosomes was confirmed by electron microscopy. Electron microscopy and histone content of gradient fractions showed that nucleosome density along the chromatin axis increased in rapidly sedimenting fractions. Thermal denaturation detected no appreciable generation of protein-free DNA fragments as a result of shearing. The results indicate that VirTis blending conserves subunit structure with loss of less than 12–15% of nucleosome structure. |
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