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A Stein, M Bina-Stein, R T Simpson.
Abstract
When histones in chromatin core particles were crosslinked with dimethylsuberimidate, the resulting particles had properties closely similar to those of native core particles. A crosslinked octameric histone complex was isolated from these particles under nondenaturing conditions. Upon reaction with DNA, this octameric protein folded the DNA into a structure closely resembling that of native core particles as verified by various techniques; protein denaturants were necessary for reassociation. The histone octamer is useful as a model of the nucleosome protein core and for studying histone-DNA interactions that occur in nucleosomes.Entities:
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Year: 1977 PMID: 197520 PMCID: PMC431287 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.74.7.2780
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205