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Nucleic Acids Res
1997 Feb 01;253:458-66. doi: 10.1093/nar/25.3.458.
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The AT-rich flanks of the oocyte-type 5S RNA gene of Xenopus laevis act as a strong local signal for histone H1-mediated chromatin reorganization in vitro.
Tomaszewski R
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Jerzmanowski A
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In vivo, histone H1 plays an active role in establishing the transcriptionally repressed chromatin state of the oocyte-type 5S RNA genes in the early stages of Xenopus development. By using fully defined in vitro system of chromatin assembly on plasmids with cloned oocyte- or somatic-type 5S gene repeats we found that the oocyte repeat which comprises a 120 bp oocyte-type 5S RNA gene placed within the few hundred bp long native AT-rich flanks, but not the somatic repeat (a similar 120 bp somatic-type 5S RNA gene placed within native GC-rich flanks) enables histone H1 to realign the nucleosomal core particles densely packed on plasmid DNA. The realignment results in creation of the repeat unit of approximately 240 bp and is achieved through complete removal of several core histone complexes from plasmid template with the oocyte-type repeat. This effect of H1 is independent on the plasmid sequences and seems to be solely due to the presence in the oocyte-repeat of the AT-rich flanks. The effects of H1 are completely suppressed by distamycin A, a drug that specifically recognizes and binds oligo(dA).oligo(dT) runs in DNA. The binding of H1 results in increased protection of DNA sites within the AT-rich oocyte-type 5S repeat. In an in vitro transcription assay performed with reconstituted chromatin templates containing plasmids with the oocyte- or somatic-type repeats only the transcription of the oocyte-type 5S RNA gene was repressed in the presence of physiological concentration of histone H1. These results support the view that the AT-rich flanks of the oocyte-type 5S RNA gene are involved in histone H1-mediated chromatin reorganization that results in the transcriptional repression observed in vivo.
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