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Metaphase chromosomes from mammalian cells stimulate fusion of artificial phospholipid vesicles
L A Balakireva1, N D Belyaev, V G Budker
1Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
FEBS Letters
|June 24, 1991
Abstract:
Isolated mitotic chromosomes are able to form complexes with phosphatidylcholine liposomes in the presence and absence of Ca2+ ions, in the latter case in the presence of polyamines. Interactions with chromosomes stimulates liposome fusion. The fusion is promoted by condensed and EDTA-decondensed chromosomes.