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Krasikova A, Kulikova T, Rodriguez Ramos JS, Maslova A. Assignment of the somatic A/B compartments to chromatin domains in giant transcriptionally active lampbrush chromosomes. Epigenetics Chromatin 2023; 16:24. [PMID: 37322523 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-023-00499-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The three-dimensional configuration of the eukaryotic genome is an emerging area of research. Chromosome conformation capture outlined genome segregation into large scale A and B compartments corresponding mainly to transcriptionally active and repressive chromatin. It remains unknown how the compartmentalization of the genome changes in growing oocytes of animals with hypertranscriptional type of oogenesis. Such oocytes are characterized by highly elongated chromosomes, called lampbrush chromosomes, which acquire a typical chromomere-loop appearance, representing one of the classical model systems for exploring the structural and functional organization of chromatin domains. RESULTS Here, we compared the distribution of A/B compartments in chicken somatic cells with chromatin domains in lampbrush chromosomes. We found that in lampbrush chromosomes, the extended chromatin domains, restricted by compartment boundaries in somatic cells, disintegrate into individual chromomeres. Next, we performed FISH-mapping of the genomic loci, which belong to A or B chromatin compartments as well as to A/B compartment transition regions in embryonic fibroblasts on isolated lampbrush chromosomes. We found, that in chicken lampbrush chromosomes, clusters of dense compact chromomeres bearing short lateral loops and enriched with repressive epigenetic modifications generally correspond to constitutive B compartments in somatic cells. A compartments align with lampbrush chromosome segments with smaller, less compact chromomeres, longer lateral loops, and a higher transcriptional status. Clusters of small loose chromomeres with relatively long lateral loops show no obvious correspondence with either A or B compartment identity. Some genes belonging to facultative B (sub-) compartments can be tissue-specifically transcribed during oogenesis, forming distinct lateral loops. CONCLUSIONS Here, we established a correspondence between the A/B compartments in somatic interphase nucleus and chromatin segments in giant lampbrush chromosomes from diplotene stage oocytes. The chromomere-loop structure of the genomic regions corresponding to interphase A and B compartments reveals the difference in how they are organized at the level of chromatin domains. The results obtained also suggest that gene-poor regions tend to be packed into chromomeres.
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- Alla Krasikova
- Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
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Comparison of the somatic TADs and lampbrush chromomere-loop complexes in transcriptionally active prophase I oocytes. Chromosoma 2022; 131:207-223. [PMID: 36031655 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-022-00780-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In diplotene oocyte nuclei of all vertebrate species, except mammals, chromosomes lack interchromosomal contacts and chromatin is linearly compartmentalized into distinct chromomere-loop complexes forming lampbrush chromosomes. However, the mechanisms underlying the formation of chromomere-loop complexes remain unexplored. Here we aimed to compare somatic topologically associating domains (TADs), recently identified in chicken embryonic fibroblasts, with chromomere-loop complexes in lampbrush meiotic chromosomes. By measuring 3D-distances and colocalization between linear equidistantly located genomic loci, positioned within one TAD or separated by a TAD border, we confirmed the presence of predicted TADs in chicken embryonic fibroblast nuclei. Using three-colored FISH with BAC probes, we mapped equidistant genomic regions included in several sequential somatic TADs on isolated chicken lampbrush chromosomes. Eight genomic regions, each comprising two or three somatic TADs, were mapped to non-overlapping neighboring lampbrush chromatin domains - lateral loops, chromomeres, or chromomere-loop complexes. Genomic loci from the neighboring somatic TADs could localize in one lampbrush chromomere-loop complex, while genomic loci belonging to the same somatic TAD could be localized in neighboring lampbrush chromomere-loop domains. In addition, FISH-mapping of BAC probes to the nascent transcripts on the lateral loops indicates transcription of at least 17 protein-coding genes and 2 non-coding RNA genes during the lampbrush stage of chicken oogenesis, including genes involved in oocyte maturation and early embryo development.
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Morgan GT. Immunochemical Detection of Modified Cytosine Species in Lampbrush Chromatin. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2198:159-168. [PMID: 32822030 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0876-0_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The lampbrush chromosomes found in the giant nucleus or germinal vesicle (GV) of amphibian oocytes provide unique opportunities for discrete closed and open chromatin structural domains to be directly observable by simple light microscopy. Moreover, the method described here for preparing spreads of lampbrush chromatin for immunostaining enables a straightforward approach to establishing the distributions of modified nucleotides within and between structurally and functionally distinctive chromatin domains.
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- Garry T Morgan
- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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Kulikova T, Surkova A, Zlotina A, Krasikova A. Mapping epigenetic modifications on chicken lampbrush chromosomes. Mol Cytogenet 2020; 13:32. [PMID: 32774459 PMCID: PMC7397634 DOI: 10.1186/s13039-020-00496-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The epigenetic regulation of genome is crucial for implementation of the genetic program of ontogenesis through establishing and maintaining differential gene expression. Thus mapping of various epigenetic modifications to the genome is relevant for studying the regulation of gene expression. Giant transcriptionally active lampbrush chromosomes are an established tool for high resolution physical mapping of the genome and its epigenetic modifications. This study is aimed at characterizing the epigenetic status of compact chromatin domains (chromomeres) of chicken lampbrush macrochromosomes. Results Distribution of three epigenetic modifications – 5-methylcytosine, histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 9 and hyperacetylated histone H4 – along the axes of chicken lampbrush chromosomes 1–4, Z and W was analyzed in details. Enrichment of chromatin domains with the investigated epigenetic modifications was indicated on the cytological chromomere-loop maps for corresponding chicken lampbrush chromosomes. Heterogeneity in the distribution of 5-methylcytosine and histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 9 along the chromosome axes was revealed. Conclusions On examples of certain chromomeres of chicken lampbrush chromosomes 1, 3, 4 and W we demonstrated that a combination of immunofluorescent staining and fluorescence in situ hybridization allows to relate the epigenetic status and a DNA sequence context of individual chromomeres.
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- Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Krasikova AV, Kulikova TV. Distribution of heterochromatin markers in lampbrush chromosomes in birds. RUSS J GENET+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795417090071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The history of studies on the chromomeres of lampbrush chromosomes is outlined and evidence for the nature and function of these structures is collected and summarised. Chromomeres and their associated loops on lampbrush chromosomes are not genetic units although in some special cases, they consist of specific families of repeated DNA sequences. The emergence of a chromomeric organisation coincides with the onset and intensification of transcription on lampbrush loops. Modern molecular studies have provided evidence that the chromatin of lampbrush chromomeres differs in several important respects from that of condensed metaphase chromosomes. It is in a highly dynamic state that facilitates localised transcription whilst keeping the chromosome safe from structural changes that might impede its orderly progression up to and through meiotic metaphase 1. Lampbrush chromosomes (LBCs) are a physically induced phenomenon, facilitated by the selective absence of molecular factors that would interfere with their main transcriptional role. LBC morphology is highly dynamic and driven by transcriptive activity.
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Morgan GT, Jones P, Bellini M. Association of modified cytosines and the methylated DNA-binding protein MeCP2 with distinctive structural domains of lampbrush chromatin. Chromosome Res 2013; 20:925-42. [PMID: 23149574 PMCID: PMC3565088 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9324-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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We have investigated the association of DNA methylation and proteins interpreting methylation state with the distinctive closed and open chromatin structural domains that are directly observable in the lampbrush chromosomes (LBCs) of amphibian oocytes. To establish the distribution in LBCs of MeCP2, one of the key proteins binding 5-methylcytosine-modified DNA (5mC), we expressed HA-tagged MeCP2 constructs in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Full-length MeCP2 was predominantly targeted to the closed, transcriptionally inactive chromomere domains in a pattern proportional to chromomeric DNA density and consistent with a global role in determining chromatin state. A minor fraction of HA-MeCP2 was also found to associate with a distinctive structural domain, namely a short region at the bases of some of the extended lateral loops. Expression in oocytes of deleted constructs and of point mutants derived from Rett syndrome patients demonstrated that the association of MeCP2 with LBCs was determined by its 5mC-binding domain. We also examined more directly the distribution of 5mC by immunostaining Xenopus and axolotl LBCs and confirmed the pattern suggested by MeCP2 targeting of intense staining of the chromomeres and of some loop bases. In addition, we found in the longer loops of axolotl LBCs that short interstitial regions could also be clearly stained for 5mC. These 5mC regions corresponded precisely to unusual segments of active transcription units from which RNA polymerase II (pol II) and nascent transcripts were simultaneously absent. We also examined by immunostaining the distribution in lampbrush chromatin of the oxidized 5mC derivative, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC). Although in general, the pattern resembled that obtained for 5mC, one antibody against 5hmC produced intense staining of restricted chromosomal foci. These foci corresponded to a third type of lampbrush chromatin domain, the transcriptionally active but less extended structures formed by clusters of genes transcribed by pol III. This raises the possibility that 5hmC may play a role in establishing the distinctive patterns of gene repression and activation that characterize specific pol III-transcribed gene families in amphibian genomes.
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- Garry T Morgan
- Centre for Genetics and Genomics, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.
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Corporeau CD, Angelier N, Penrad-Mobayed M. HSP70 is involved in the control of chromosomal transcription in the amphibian oocyte. Exp Cell Res 2000; 260:222-32. [PMID: 11035917 DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.5003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The amphibian oocyte represents an excellent model for the study of transcription regulation. Indeed, any modification of transcriptional activity is directly reflected in lampbrush chromosome structure by concomitant morphological changes. Previous studies have led to the hypothesis of a putative role for heat-shock proteins HSP70 and/or HSC70 in transcriptional processes in the oocyte. In order to dissect out the relative role of HSP70 or HSC70 in these processes, we used an oligo-antisense strategy to specifically inhibit the function of the targeted protein. Effects of hsc70 and hsp70 antisense oligodeoxynucleotides were analyzed in terms of both mRNA quantity and protein synthesis. Their effects on oocyte transcription were analyzed at the level of structural organization of lampbrush chromosomes and nucleolar transcriptional activity. Our results show that specific inactivation of hsc70 mRNA by hsc70 antisense oligos led to a reversible inhibition of lampbrush chromosome transcription. However, such reversible inhibition of transcription is considered non-sequence specific since it is also induced by any oligo. In contrast, specific inactivation of hsp70 mRNA by hsp70 antisense oligos, which is correlated with a drop of HSP70 neosynthesis, results in an irreversible inhibition of lampbrush chromosome transcription. Furthermore, our results show that the inactivation of hsp70 or hsc70 mRNAs does not affect nucleolar transcription. Such data suggest a role for HSP70 in the control of chromatin modifications related to RNA polymerase II transcriptional activity.
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- C D Corporeau
- Groupe Gènes et Développement, UMR 7622, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du Développement, Bât. C, Université P. et M. Curie, CNRS, 6(ème) étage, Case 16, 9 quai Saint-Bernard, Paris cedex 05, 75252, France
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Thiry M. Ultrastructural methods for nucleic acid detection by immunocytology. PROGRESS IN HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CYTOCHEMISTRY 1999; 34:87-159. [PMID: 10546283 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6336(99)80008-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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In the present review are summarized recent developments in immunocytochemical detection of nucleic acids in biological materials at the ultrastructural level. Not only the approaches using antibodies to natural nucleic acids are described but also the techniques involving the use of antibodies raised against various nucleotide analogs incorporated beforehand into nucleic acids. Special emphasis is placed on each method's potential and limitations. These methods, combined or not with molecular biotechnology, are powerful tools for studying the structure and function of nucleic acids. They can be used to investigate the distribution and topological organization of DNA and RNA molecules or of specialized within these molecules in the cells.
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- M Thiry
- Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Biology, Institute of Histology, University of Liège, Belgium.
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Penrad-Mobayed M, Moreau N, Angelier N. Evidence for specific RNA/protein interactions in the differential segment of the W sex chromosome in the amphibian Pleurodeles waltl. Dev Growth Differ 1998; 40:147-56. [PMID: 9572357 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1998.00004.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Pleurodeles exhibits a ZZ/ZW system of GSD (genotype sex determination). However, the Z and W sex chromosomes appear to be morphologically identical. A short RNA sequence is described that was specifically bound to lampbrush loops in the differential segment of the sexual bivalent IV. The distribution of these labeled loops in experimentally produced ZZ and WW females enabled us to demonstrate that such labeled loops were perfectly correlated with the W chromosome. Therefore, this RNA sequence constitutes an excellent marker for the W differential segment. Furthermore, analysis of the labeled loops under various experimental conditions suggested that their labeling is caused by specific interactions between this RNA sequence and lampbrush loop-associated proteins (RNA/protein interactions). North-western assays revealed that nuclear polypeptide(s) of 65 kDa could be responsible for such binding.
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- M Penrad-Mobayed
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du Développement, UA 1135 CNRS-UPMC, Paris, France
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Hock R, Carl M, Lieb B, Gebauer D, Scheer U. A monoclonal antibody against DNA topoisomerase II labels the axial granules of Pleurodeles lampbrush chromosomes. Chromosoma 1996; 104:358-66. [PMID: 8575248 DOI: 10.1007/bf00337225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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By immunizing Balb/c mice with oocyte nuclei of Pleurodeles waltl we obtained a monoclonal antibody, mAb 4A6, that labels distinct globular domains of the lampbrush chromosomal axes of Pleurodeles. These domains are found at corresponding sites of homologous chromosomes, often at telomeric and putative centromeric regions, and appear to be devoid of DNA. Because of these characteristic features it is most likely that the mAb 4A6-positive domains correspond to the central part of the "axial granules" of urodelan lampbrush chromosomes. In immunoblotting analyses mAb 4A6 reacts with a nuclear antigen of approximately Mr 180000 and a structurally nonrelated cytoplasmic protein of Mr 98000, which was not characterized any further. Comparative immunofluorescence and immunoblotting studies with mAb 4A6 and an antiserum against DNA topoisomerase II (topo II) as well as immunodepletion experiments demonstrated that the nuclear 4A6 antigen is topo II. Our results indicate that topo II is not a constituent of a continuous, loop-anchoring scaffold in lampbrush chromosomes of Pleurodeles but, rather, is restricted to the axial granules.
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- R Hock
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Theodor-Boveri-Institute (Biocenter), University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Montpellier C, Burgeois CA, Kokalj-Vokac N, Muleris M, Niveleau A, Reynaud C, Gibaud A, Malfoy B, Dutrillaux B. Detection of methylcytosine-rich heterochromatin on banded chromosomes. Application to cells with various status of DNA methylation. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1994; 78:87-93. [PMID: 7987813 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(94)90052-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A procedure including incorporation of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in DNA and a thermal denaturation step was developed to obtain both R-banding and efficient binding of anti-5-methylcytosine antibodies on metaphase chromosomes. BrdU incorporation improved the efficiency of antibody binding disclosed by immunofluorescence staining. This method allowed semiquantitative analysis of the antibody binding sites on straightforward characterized metaphase chromosomes and was applied to normal human lymphocytes and lymphoblastoid cell lines for which DNA methylation status had been previously analyzed. A correlation was established between level of DNA methylation and the semiquantitative estimate of antibody fixation. This procedure can be used to study DNA methylation on metaphase chromosomes in transformed and cancerous cell lines.
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- C Montpellier
- URA 620 CNRS, Structure et Mutagenèse Chromosomiques, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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Billoud B, Rodriguez-Martin ML, Berard L, Moreau N, Angelier N. Constitutive expression of a somatic heat-inducible hsp70 gene during amphibian oogenesis. Development 1993; 119:921-32. [PMID: 8187647 DOI: 10.1242/dev.119.3.921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We isolated and characterized a sequence coding for heat-shock protein 70 (HSP70) of the amphibian Pleurodeles waltl. Results from S1 nuclease protection assays led us to conclude that an hsp70 gene, strictly inducible in somatic cells during heat shock, is constitutively active during oogenesis. By quantitative northern and western blot analysis, we showed that both hsp70 mRNA and HSP70-related protein levels increased in oocytes from stage II to stage VI under physiological conditions. Furthermore, by in situ hybridization to the nascent transcripts of lampbrush chromosome loops, we provided evidence for a clear-cut relationship between this increase in hsp70 mRNA and transcriptional activity during the lampbrush stage of oogenesis. These results strongly suggest that hsp70 genes are actively transcribed throughout oogenesis. HSP70-related proteins localized in the cytoplasm of young oocytes are progressively transferred to the nucleus in the course of oogenesis and preferentially accumulated in the nuclei of some stage VI oocytes.
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- B Billoud
- Centre de Biologie Cellulaire, CNRS, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
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Podestà A, Castiglione MR, Avanzi S, Montagnoli G. Molecular geometry of antigen binding by a monoclonal antibody against 5-methylcytidine. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 25:929-33. [PMID: 8344448 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(93)90249-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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1. The specificity of a monoclonal IgG1 raised against a 5-methylcytidine-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugate was investigated by inhibition experiments with soluble competing antigens. 2. A competitive enzyme immunoassay has been set up, with the antigen immobilized on polystyrene microtitration wells. 3. The analysis of the cross-reaction profile allowed the topography of the antigen-antibody interaction to be described. 4. The binding properties of the monoclonal antibody are discussed in terms of both analytical applications and working limitations in the immunochemical study of gene methylation.
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- A Podestà
- University of Pisa, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Animal Production Sciences, Italy
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Penrad-Mobayed M, Sourrouille P, Bonnanfant-Jaïs ML, N'Da E, Edström JE, Angelier N. Microdissection and cloning of DNA from landmark loops of amphibian lampbrush chromosomes. Chromosoma 1991; 101:180-8. [PMID: 1790731 DOI: 10.1007/bf00355367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Microdissection of the "globular" and "granular" landmark loops of Pleurodeles lampbrush chromosomes and subsequent cloning of their DNA yielded several recombinant clones. The 6.6-kb insert of one of them was subcloned and the 600 bp of one subclone was characterized by Southern and slot hybridizations as well as by sequencing. This sequence, designated p130B, was shown to belong to a class of moderately repetitive DNA. RNA expression of this sequence was investigated by in situ hybridization of p130B to the nascent transcripts of lateral loops. Results showed that: (1) the same transcripts were not always found in matrices of landmarks exhibiting the same morphological features; (2) the same transcripts were expressed in loops of different morphological types. Based on these results we suggest that even if there is a morphological similarity of landmark loops, this does not reflect total similarity of their transcripts.
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Dos Santos Guerra M. Cis-acting regulation of NOR cistrons in Eleutherine bulbosa (Iridaceae). Genetica 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00126229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rodriguez-Martin ML, Moreau N, Herberts C, Angelier N. Comparison between in vivo and in vitro heat-induced changes in amphibian lampbrush chromosomes. Chromosoma 1991; 100:79-86. [PMID: 2009818 DOI: 10.1007/bf00418240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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At normal breeding temperature (20 degrees C), amphibian lampbrush chromosomes are characterized by the presence of lateral loops which are related to the transcriptional process. Heat treatment induces changes in these loops, but the nature and timing of these modifications depend on hyperthermic stress conditions. Indeed, our data demonstrate that, at the same high temperature (34 degrees C), lampbrush chromosome modifications induced by in vivo and in vitro gradual heat treatments are different from those induced by in vitro heat shock. In vivo and in vitro heat treatments lead to progressive disorganization of landmark loops, whereas in vitro heat shock results in chromosome condensation. The progressive adaptation of lampbrush chromosome structure in response to gradual heat stress is considered and discussed.
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Ruiz IR, Brison O. Methylation of ribosomal cistrons in diploid and tetraploid Odontophrynus americanus (Amphibia, Anura). Chromosoma 1989; 98:86-92. [PMID: 2776516 DOI: 10.1007/bf00291042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Odontophyrynus americanus (Amphibia, Anura) genomic DNA from diploid and tetraploid specimens was treated with restriction enzymes sensitive to cytosine and adenine methylation (5 meC and 6 meA). In both diploids and tetraploids a high proportion of the total DNA was not cleaved by 5 meC-sensitive enzymes as observed on agarose gels stained with ethidium bromide. The DNAs were transferred to nitrocellulose filters and hybridized with cloned fragments containing sequences of Xenopus laevis 28S and 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA). A high level of methylation of the ribosomal repeat units was revealed by 5 meC-sensitive enzymes in blood, liver, kidney and testis tissues. Adenine was methylated to a lesser degree and similarly in the rDNA from both germinative and somatic tissues. Comparison of the results obtained with DNA of diploids and tetraploids showed that methylation of ribosomal genes was increased in tetraploid genomes of adult frogs, but exact quantitative determinations could not be performed by this methodology. Cloning of the 28S region of the rDNA repeat unit was performed in the lambda gtWES lambda C vector. Restriction patterns obtained with methylation-sensitive enzymes using diploid and tetraploid derived clones confirmed the high level of methylation of the corresponding region of the ribosomal repeat unit in genomic DNAs. The implications of these results in the regulation of expression of the ribosomal genes in diploids and tetraploids are discussed.
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- I R Ruiz
- Genética, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
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Female Pleurodeles waltl newts (Amphibia, urodele), usually raised at 20 degrees C, were submitted to low temperatures; oocytes responded to this cold stress by drastic changes both in lampbrush chromosome structure and in protein pattern. Preexisting lateral loops of lampbrush chromosomes were reduced in size and number, while cold-induced loops which were tremendously developed, occurred on defined bivalents of the oocyte at constant, reproducible sites. A comparison of protein patterns in control and stressed oocytes showed two main differences: in stressed oocytes, overall protein synthesis was reduced, except for a set of polypeptides, the "cold-stress proteins"; second, there was a striking inversion of the relative amount of beta- and gamma-actin found in the oocyte nucleus before and after cold stress. Whereas beta-actin was the predominant form in control oocytes, gamma-actin became the major form in stressed oocytes.
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- N Angelier
- Centre de Biologie Cellulaire, CNRS, UPR A3101, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
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Nigg EA. Nuclear function and organization: the potential of immunochemical approaches. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1988; 110:27-92. [PMID: 3053500 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61847-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- E A Nigg
- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Chemin des Boveresses, Epalinges s/Lausanne
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