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Deciphering Molecular Mechanism of Histone Assembly by DNA Curtain Technique
Published on: March 9, 2022
Assembly of nucleosome-like structures mediated by cauliflower DNA topoisomerase
H Fukata1, K Ohgami, H Fukasawa
1Biochemical Laboratory, Kobe Women's University, Suma-ku, 654, Kobe, Japan.
Abstract:
Nucleosome-like structures have been efficiently assembled in vitro by interaction of cauliflower histones, pBR322 DNA and cauliflower DNA topoisomerase, as assayed by supercoiling of relaxed circular DNA and by digestion with micrococcal nuclease. The optimum ionic strength for supercoiling was 150 mM KCl and the optimum weight ratio of histone to DNA was approximately 1.0. Four histones, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4, were necessary for the optimum assembling conditions, and the nucleosomes assembled protected DNA fragments of approximately 150 bp in length. It was found that cauliflower DNA topoisomerase acts not only as a DNA-relaxing enzyme but also as a chaperon factor for nucleosome assembly.
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