Torsional stress in eukaryotic chromatin
作者:
Walter A. Scott,
期刊:
BioEssays
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 34-36
ISSN:0265-9247
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1002/bies.950020110
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe bulk of the DNA in eukaryotic chromatin behaves as if it is topologically relaxed; however, a subfraction can be shown to be under suercoil tension. Endonuclease S1 cuts at specific hypersentive sites in chromatin (in the promoter regions of active genes) and this enzyme cuts in the same region in supercoiled plasmids, but not in relaxed or linearized molecules. A subfraction of the minichromosomes formed after SV40 infection or microinjection of plasmid DNA into oocytes contains supercoil tension and this subfraction is thought to play an important role in transcription.
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