Specific silver staining of experimentally undercondensed chromosome regions |
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Authors: | T. Haaf H. Weis D. Schindler M. Schmid |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Würzburg, Koellikerstr. 2, D-8700 Würzburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | Treatment of human and mouse cell cultures with DNA binding AT-specific compounds and with some base analogues induced distinct undercondensations in several heterochromatic chromosome regions. All those heterochromatic regions undercondensed by AT-specific DNA ligands (distamycin A, DAPI, Hoechst 33258) could be heavily labeled with the silver(Ag)-staining technique; but the heterochromatic regions undercondensed with the cytidine analogue 5-azacytidine were Ag-negative. In metaphase chromosomes from BrdU-treated human cell cultures, the bifilarly substituted chromatids, which show a slight undercondensation, were also Ag-negative. Cytochemical analyses of the Ag-stained undercondensed heterochromatic regions showed that the Ag-stainable material consisted of nonhistone proteins. The mechanism of Ag staining in the undercondensed heterochromatic regions was compared with Ag staining of the nucleolus organizer regions. |
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