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Transcriptionally Active Chromatin-Lessons Learned from the Chicken Erythrocyte Chromatin Fractionation. Cells 2021; 10:cells10061354. [PMID: 34070759 PMCID: PMC8226759 DOI: 10.3390/cells10061354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The chicken erythrocyte model system has been valuable to the study of chromatin structure and function, specifically for genes involved in oxygen transport and the innate immune response. Several seminal features of transcriptionally active chromatin were discovered in this system. Davie and colleagues capitalized on the unique features of the chicken erythrocyte to separate and isolate transcriptionally active chromatin and silenced chromatin, using a powerful native fractionation procedure. Histone modifications, histone variants, atypical nucleosomes (U-shaped nucleosomes) and other chromatin structural features (open chromatin) were identified in these studies. More recently, the transcriptionally active chromosomal domains in the chicken erythrocyte genome were mapped by combining this chromatin fractionation method with next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing. The landscape of histone modifications relative to chromatin structural features in the chicken erythrocyte genome was reported in detail, including the first ever mapping of histone H4 asymmetrically dimethylated at Arg 3 (H4R3me2a) and histone H3 symmetrically dimethylated at Arg 2 (H3R2me2s), which are products of protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) 1 and 5, respectively. PRMT1 is important in the establishment and maintenance of chicken erythrocyte transcriptionally active chromatin.
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Marr LT, Clark DJ, Hayes JJ. A method for assessing histone surface accessibility genome-wide. Methods 2019; 184:61-69. [PMID: 31830524 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The assembly of DNA into nucleosomes and higher order chromatin structures serves not only as a means of compaction but also organizes the genome to facilitate crucial processes such as cell division and regulation of gene expression. Chromatin structure generally limits access to DNA, with the accessibility of DNA in chromatin being regulated through post translational modification of the histone proteins as well as the activity of chromatin remodeling proteins and architectural chromatin factors. There is great interest in assessing chromatin accessibility genome-wide to identify functional elements associated with enhancers, promoters, and other discontinuities in the compacted chromatin structure associated with gene expression. As the vast majority of techniques rely upon assessment of the exposure of the underlying DNA, we describe here a general method that can be used to assess exposure of internal and external histone protein surfaces. We demonstrate the feasibility of this method, in the organism S. cerevisiae. Our method relies on substitution of residues residing on selected histone protein surfaces with cysteine, and assessment of exposure by reaction with a thiol specific reagent, biotin-maleimide. We demonstrate that modified nucleosomes can be efficiently excised from nuclei treated with the reagent via a one-step purification process. After library preparation and deep sequencing, selected nucleosomes are typically ~25-fold enriched over background signals and exhibit phasing with respect to transcription start sites in yeast that is identical to an unselected population.
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- Luke T Marr
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Division of Developmental Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Rajendran A, Shigi N, Sumaoka J, Komiyama M. One-Pot Isolation of a Desired Human Genome Fragment by Using a Biotinylated pcPNA/S1 Nuclease Combination. Biochemistry 2018; 57:2908-2912. [PMID: 29722525 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Scission of the human genome at predetermined sites and isolation of a particular fragment are of great interest for the analysis of lesion/modification sites, in proteomics, and for gene therapy. However, methods for human genome scission and specific fragment isolation are limited. Here, we report a novel one-pot method for the site-specific scission of DNA by using a biotinylated pcPNA/S1 nuclease combination and isolation of a desired fragment by streptavidin-coated magnetic beads. The proof of concept was initially demonstrated for the clipping of plasmid DNA and isolation of the required fragment. Our method was then successfully applied for the isolation of a fragment from the cell-derived human genome.
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- Arivazhagan Rajendran
- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance , University of Tsukuba , 1-1-1 Tennoudai , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-8577 , Japan
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance , University of Tsukuba , 1-1-1 Tennoudai , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-8577 , Japan
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance , University of Tsukuba , 1-1-1 Tennoudai , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-8577 , Japan
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance , University of Tsukuba , 1-1-1 Tennoudai , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-8577 , Japan
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Shigi N, Rajendran A, Wang X, Kunifuda H, Sumaoka J, Komiyama M. Affinity Isolation of Desired Restriction Fragment from Human Genome Using Double-duplex Invasion of Biotin-bound Pseudo-complementary PNA. CHEM LETT 2015. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.150682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Narumi Shigi
- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology
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- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba
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Khan DH, Jahan S, Davie JR. Pre-mRNA splicing: role of epigenetics and implications in disease. Adv Biol Regul 2012; 52:377-388. [PMID: 22884031 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbior.2012.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Epigenetics refer to a variety of processes that have long-term effects on gene expression programs without changes in DNA sequence. Key players in epigenetic control are histone modifications and DNA methylation which, in concert with chromatin remodeling complexes, nuclear architecture and microRNAs, define the chromatin structure of a gene and its transcriptional activity. There is a growing awareness that histone modifications and chromatin organization influence pre-mRNA splicing. Further there is emerging evidence that pre-mRNA splicing itself influences chromatin organization. In the mammalian genome around 95% of multi-exon genes generate alternatively spliced transcripts, the products of which create proteins with different functions. It is now established that several human diseases are a direct consequence of aberrant splicing events. In this review we present the interplay between epigenetic mechanisms and splicing regulation, as well as discuss recent studies on the role of histone deacetylases in splicing activities.
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- Dilshad H Khan
- Manitoba Institute of Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 3P4 Canada
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Mating type in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is determined by two nonhomologous alleles, MATa and MATα. These sequences encode regulators of the two different haploid mating types and of the diploids formed by their conjugation. Analysis of the MATa1, MATα1, and MATα2 alleles provided one of the earliest models of cell-type specification by transcriptional activators and repressors. Remarkably, homothallic yeast cells can switch their mating type as often as every generation by a highly choreographed, site-specific homologous recombination event that replaces one MAT allele with different DNA sequences encoding the opposite MAT allele. This replacement process involves the participation of two intact but unexpressed copies of mating-type information at the heterochromatic loci, HMLα and HMRa, which are located at opposite ends of the same chromosome-encoding MAT. The study of MAT switching has yielded important insights into the control of cell lineage, the silencing of gene expression, the formation of heterochromatin, and the regulation of accessibility of the donor sequences. Real-time analysis of MAT switching has provided the most detailed description of the molecular events that occur during the homologous recombinational repair of a programmed double-strand chromosome break.
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Apoptogenic and necrogenic effects of mercuric acetate on the chromatin structure of K562 human erythroleukemia cells. Toxicol In Vitro 2010; 24:267-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2009.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2009] [Revised: 07/30/2009] [Accepted: 08/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rand MD, Bland CE, Bond J. Methylmercury activates enhancer-of-split and bearded complex genes independent of the notch receptor. Toxicol Sci 2008; 104:163-76. [PMID: 18367466 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfn060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Methylmercury (MeHg) is a persistent environmental toxin that has targeted effects on fetal neural development. Although a number of cytotoxic mechanisms of MeHg have been characterized in cultured cells, its mode of action in the developing nervous system in vivo is less clear. Studies of MeHg-affected rodent and human brains show disrupted cortical and cerebellar architecture suggestive of mechanisms that augment cell signaling pathways potentially affecting cell migration and proliferation. We previously identified the Notch receptor pathway, a highly conserved signaling mechanism fundamental for neural development, as a target for MeHg-induced signaling in Drosophila neural cell lines. Here we have expanded our use of the Drosophila model to resolve a broader spectrum of transcriptional changes resulting from MeHg exposure in vivo and in vitro. Several Notch target genes within the Enhancer-of-split (E(spl)C) and Bearded (BrdC) complexes are upregulated with MeHg exposure in the embryo and in cultured neural cells. However, the profile of MeHg-induced E(spl)C and BrdC gene expression differs significantly from that seen with activation of the Notch receptor. Targeted knockdown of Notch and of the downstream coactivator Suppressor of Hairless (Su(H)), shows no effect on MeHg-induced transcription, indicating a novel Notch-independent mechanism of action for MeHg. MeHg transcriptional activation is partially mimicked by iodoacetamide but not by N-ethylmaleimide, two thiol-specific electrophiles, revealing a degree of specificity of cellular thiol targets in MeHg-induced transcriptional events.
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- Matthew D Rand
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Chromatin is the physiologically relevant substrate for all genetic processes inside the nuclei of eukaryotic cells. Dynamic changes in the local and global organization of chromatin are emerging as key regulators of genomic function. Indeed, a multitude of signals from outside and inside the cell converges on this gigantic signaling platform. Numerous post-translational modifications of histones, the main protein components of chromatin, have been documented and analyzed in detail. These 'marks' appear to crucially mediate the functional activity of the genome in response to upstream signaling pathways. Different layers of cross-talk between several components of this complex regulatory system are emerging, and these epigenetic circuits are the focus of this review.
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- Wolfgang Fischle
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, 1300 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0733, USA
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Morrison AJ, Sardet C, Herrera RE. Retinoblastoma protein transcriptional repression through histone deacetylation of a single nucleosome. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:856-65. [PMID: 11784861 PMCID: PMC133558 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.3.856-865.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2001] [Revised: 10/11/2001] [Accepted: 10/16/2001] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The retinoblastoma protein, pRb, controls transcription through recruitment of histone deacetylase to particular E2F-responsive genes. We determined the acetylation level of individual nucleosomes present in the cyclin E promoter of RB(+/+) and RB(-/-) mouse embryo fibroblasts. We also determined the effects of pRb on nucleosomal conformation by examining the thiol reactivity of histone H3 of individual nucleosomes. We found that pRb represses the cyclin E promoter through histone deacetylation of a single nucleosome, to which it and histone deacetylase 1 bind. In addition, the conformation of this nucleosome is modulated by pRb-directed histone deacetylase activity. Thus, the repressive role of pRb in cyclin E transcription and therefore cell cycle progression can be mapped to its control of the acetylation status and conformation of a single nucleosome.
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- Ashby J Morrison
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Krajewski WA. Chromatin structural transitions in Drosophila embryo cell-free extract result in a high conformational flexibility of nucleosomal DNA. FEBS Lett 1999; 452:215-8. [PMID: 10386593 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00637-7] [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: 11/28/2022]
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DNA within chromatin has considerably more restricted flexibility in comparison with naked DNA. This raises the main question of how the functioning multi-enzyme complexes overcome the nucleosomal level of DNA packaging. We studied the DNA conformational flexibility of reconstituted chromatin in a cell-free system derived from Drosophila embryo extracts. Using this system, we have found evidence for a energy-independent chromatin remodelling process that efficiently destabilizes the nucleosome structure resulting in a high conformational flexibility of nucleosomal DNA. The described chromatin remodelling process may lay on the basis of defined molecular principles governing the molecular heterogeneity of chromatin structures in vivo.
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- W A Krajewski
- Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
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Cui K, Feldman L, Sytkowski AJ. Isolation of differentially expressed genes by cloning transcriptionally active DNA fragments. Methods 1999; 17:265-71. [PMID: 10080911 DOI: 10.1006/meth.1998.0736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During studies of erythroid cell growth and differentiation induced by erythropoietin (Epo), we developed a method that allows the identification and isolation of genes based upon their transcriptional activity. Transcriptionally active genomic DNA fragments from Epo-treated cells and control cells are purified from inactive chromatin using mercury affinity chromatography, based on the mechanism that the thiol groups of histone H3 on transcriptionally active chromatin are exposed to the solvent and therefore are easily accessible. Using the purified genomic DNA fragments from the two populations of cells, a subtractive hybridization strategy is used to isolate and clone genes that are differentially expressed in the absence or in the presence of Epo.
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- K Cui
- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA
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Smerdon MJ, Conconi A. Modulation of DNA damage and DNA repair in chromatin. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 62:227-55. [PMID: 9932456 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60509-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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DNA is packaged in the highly compact and dynamic structure of chromatin in eukaryotic cells. It is generally accepted that DNA processing events in the nucleus, such as transcription, replication, recombination, and repair, are restricted by this packaging. For some processes (e.g., transcription), the chromatin fiber is "preset" in a more open structure to allow access of proteins to specific regions of DNA within this structural hierarchy. These regions contain modified nucleosomes that accommodate a less compact state of chromatin and allow access to specific regions of DNA. DNA repair proteins, however, must access DNA lesions in all structural domains of chromatin after sudden insult to the genome. Damaged DNA must be recognized, removed, and replaced by repair enzymes at all levels of chromatin packaging. Therefore, the modulation of DNA damage and its repair in chromatin is crucial to our understanding of the fate of potential mutagenic and carcinogenic lesions in DNA. In this review, we discuss the modulation of DNA damage and DNA repair by chromatin structure, and the modulation of chromatin structure by these events.
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- M J Smerdon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman 99164, USA
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Baxter BK, Smerdon MJ. Nucleosome unfolding during DNA repair in normal and xeroderma pigmentosum (group C) human cells. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:17517-24. [PMID: 9651343 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.28.17517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The fate of nucleosomes during nucleotide excision repair is unclear. We have used organomercurial chromatography to capture accessible thiol groups of proteins at (or near) nascent repair sites in normal and xeroderma pigmentosum (group C) human cells. The reactive groups include cysteine 110 of histone H3, which is exposed in unfolded nucleosomes. Immediately after UV irradiation and a short pulse labeling of repair patches, intact nuclei were digested with restriction enzymes to release approximately 18% of the chromatin into soluble fragments, which are enriched (approximately 4-fold) in a constitutively transcribed gene. Upon organomercurial affinity fractionation, approximately 1.8% of the soluble chromatin remains bound in high salt (0.5 M NaCl) and is released with dithiothreitol. In normal cell chromatin, this fraction is enriched in nascent repair patches (1.5-1.8-fold) over the unbound fraction. This enrichment decreases following short chase periods with a time course similar to the loss of enhanced nuclease sensitivity of these regions (t 1/2 approximately 30 min). Much less enrichment of nascent repair patches is observed in the thiol-reactive fraction from XPC cells, which repair primarily the transcribed strand of active genes. These results suggest that transient nucleosome unfolding occurs during nucleotide excision repair in normal human cells, and this unfolding may require the XPC protein.
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- B K Baxter
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, P.O. Box 644660, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4660, USA
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Walia H, Chen HY, Sun JM, Holth LT, Davie JR. Histone acetylation is required to maintain the unfolded nucleosome structure associated with transcribing DNA. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:14516-22. [PMID: 9603965 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.23.14516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Nucleosomes associated with transcribing chromatin of mammalian cells have an unfolded structure in which the normally buried cysteinyl-thiol group of histone H3 is exposed. In this study we analyzed transcriptionally active/competent DNA-enriched chromatin fractions from chicken mature and immature erythrocytes for the presence of thiol-reactive nucleosomes using organomercury-agarose column chromatography and hydroxylapatite dissociation chromatography of chromatin fractions labeled with [3H]iodoacetate. In mature and immature erythrocytes, the active DNA-enriched chromatin fractions are associated with histones that are rapidly highly acetylated and rapidly deacetylated. When histone deacetylation was prevented by incubating cells with histone deacetylase inhibitors, sodium butyrate or trichostatin A, thiol-reactive H3 of unfolded nucleosomes was detected in the soluble chromatin and nuclear skeleton-associated chromatin of immature, but not mature, erythrocytes. We did not find thiol-reactive nucleosomes in active DNA-enriched chromatin fractions of untreated immature erythrocytes that had low levels of highly acetylated histones H3 and H4 or in chromatin of immature cells incubated with inhibitors of transcription elongation. This study shows that transcription elongation is required to form, and histone acetylation is needed to maintain, the unfolded structure of transcribing nucleosomes.
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- H Walia
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E OW3, Canada
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Boffa LC, Morris PL, Carpaneto EM, Louissaint M, Allfrey VG. Invasion of the CAG triplet repeats by a complementary peptide nucleic acid inhibits transcription of the androgen receptor and TATA-binding protein genes and correlates with refolding of an active nucleosome containing a unique AR gene sequence. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:13228-33. [PMID: 8662737 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.22.13228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The DNA sequence of the genes for the androgen receptor (AR) and TATA-binding protein (TBP), like many other genes encoding transcription factors, contains a series of tandem CAG repeats. Here we explore the capacity of complementary peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) to invade the CAG triplets of the AR and TBP genes in human prostatic cancer cells and show that the PNAs readily entered the nuclei of lysolecithin-permeabilized cells and effectively inhibited sense transcription of unique AR and TBP DNA sequences downstream of the site of PNA.DNA hybridization, but not upstream of that site. These PNAs had little or no effect on transcription of the c-myc gene, which lacks a CAG triplet domain. Conversely, a PNA complementary to a unique sequence of the c-myc gene did not inhibit transcription of the AR or TBP genes but did inhibit c-myc transcription. Comparisons of PNA effects on sense and antisense transcription of the AR, TBP, and c-myc genes confirm that progression of the RNA polymerase complex beyond the site of PNA.DNA hybridization is impaired in both directions. Suppression of the AR gene results in refolding of a transcriptionally active nucleosome containing a unique 17-mer AR DNA sequence.
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- L C Boffa
- Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca, sul Cancro IST, Genoa 16132, Italy
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Davie JR. The nuclear matrix and the regulation of chromatin organization and function. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1996; 162A:191-250. [PMID: 8575881 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61232-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Nuclear DNA is organized into loop domains, with the base of the loop being bound to the nuclear matrix. Loops with transcriptionally active and/or potentially active genes have a DNase I-sensitive chromatin structure, while repressed chromatin loops have a condensed configuration that is essentially invisible to the transcription machinery. Core histone acetylation and torsional stress appear to be responsible for the generation and/or maintenance of the open potentially active chromatin loops. The transcriptionally active region of the loop makes several dynamic attachments with the nuclear matrix and is associated with core histones that are dynamically acetylated. Histone acetyltransferase and deacetylase, which catalyze this rapid acetylation and deacetylation, are bound to the nuclear matrix. Several transcription factors are components of the nuclear matrix. Histone acetyltransferase, deacetylase, and transcription factors may contribute to the dynamic attachment of the active chromatin domains with the nuclear matrix at sites of ongoing transcription.
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- J R Davie
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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