Mammalian chromatin substructure studies with the calcium–magnesium endonuclease and two-dimensional polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis
- 1 October 1974
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 143 (1) , 67-72
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1430067
Abstract
The basic regularity of chromatin substructure that has been reported in rat liver chromatin (Hewish & Burgoyne, 1973b) was also detected in mouse chromatin. The regular series of DNA fragments produced by the action of Ca–Mg endonuclease on rat chromatin were studied further. The smallest single-stranded class has a molecular weight of approx. 45000–63000 and the smallest double-stranded class has a molecular weight of approx. 120000–150000. Studies of the substructure of the DNA fragments produced by the Ca–Mg endonuclease have shown that the regular series of double-stranded fragments have regular series of single-stranded fragments within them. It was concluded that the regular series of double-stranded fragments was probably a consequence of the regular series of single-stranded fragments. Digestion time-courses are presented for mouse and rat nuclear DNA.Keywords
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