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Assembly of Nucleosomal Arrays from Recombinant Core Histones and Nucleosome Positioning DNA
Published on: September 10, 2013
Un núcleo de nucleosoma se transfiere fuera de la trayectoria de una polimerasa transcriptor
1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Cell
|October 2, 1992
Resumen
Durante la transcripción, un núcleo del nucleosoma se desplaza y se reforma en otra parte del ADN. Esta transferencia de octámero de histona sugiere un mecanismo para navegar por el ADN durante la expresión génica activa.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- La epigenética es la epigenética.
- Regulación genética Reglamento genético.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los nucleosomas son unidades fundamentales del empaque del ADN en los eucariotas.
- Comprender la dinámica de los nucleosomas durante la transcripción es crucial para la regulación de los genes.
- Los modelos anteriores propusieron varios mecanismos para el recorrido de la polimerasa de los nucleosomas.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para determinar el destino del núcleo de un nucleosoma durante la transcripción.
- Para investigar el desplazamiento y la reforma de los nucleosomas en el ADN.
- Para dilucidar el mecanismo de la transcripción a través del ADN nucleosómico.
Principales métodos:
- El ensamblaje de un núcleo nucleosómico en un fragmento corto de ADN.
- Ligadura del ADN que contiene nucleosomas en un plásmido con promotor y terminadores de ARN polimerasa SP6.
- Análisis de la distribución de los nucleosomas después de la transcripción in vitro.
Principales resultados:
- El núcleo del nucleosoma se mantuvo estable en ausencia de transcripción.
- La transcripción por la ARN polimerasa SP6 desplazó el octámero de histona.
- El octámero de histonas desplazado reformó un núcleo del nucleosoma en un nuevo sitio, a menudo en regiones no transcritas.
Conclusiones:
- El estudio proporciona evidencia directa del desplazamiento del nucleosoma durante la transcripción.
- Los hallazgos eliminan varios modelos propuestos para la transcripción a través de los nucleosomas.
- Los resultados sugieren que el desplazamiento del nucleosoma ocurre a través de la transferencia a sitios de ADN aceptador.
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