| Literature DB >> 27854017 |
Manjinder S Cheema1, Juan Ausió2.
Abstract
The accumulating discoveries of new posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and the increasing relevance of histone variants within the frame of epigenetics demand the availability of methods for a rapid and efficient nucleosome reconstitution to analyze their structural and functional implications. Here we describe a method suitable for this purpose, starting from bacterially expressed histones, solubilized by acid and purified by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. This method allows the preparation of micrograms to milligram amounts of in vitro-assembled nucleosomes. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency of this method for the structural analysis of nucleosomes in the analytical ultracentrifuge.Keywords: Acid extraction; Analytical ultracentrifuge (AUC); Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC); Nucleosome; Recombinant histones; Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
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Year: 2017 PMID: 27854017 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6630-1_6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745