Changing nucleosome positions in vivo through modification of the DNA rotational information
Open Access
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 333 (1) , 65-69
Abstract
The effects of the rotational information of DNA in determining the in vivolocalization of nucleosomal core particles (ncps) have been studied in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae5 S rRNA repeat gene. The distribution of the phased series of flexibility signals present in this DNA has been altered by inserting in its centre a 25 bp tract. The effects of such alteration on the in vivodistribution of the helically phased, alternatively located ncps have been determined relative to a reference 21 bp insertion mutant. The results show that the answers provided in vitroand in vivoby the yeast 5 S rRNA gene sequence to specific modifications of the DNA rotational frame are similar, thus pointing to the relevance of DNA rotational information in vivo.Keywords
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