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Abstract
An S1-nuclease sensitive site exists within supercoiled plasmids containing the 5'-flanking sequences of the human beta-globin gene. This site is located approximately 540 base pairs upstream from the start of the gene within a region of 52 alternating purine-pyrimidine residues which has the potential to adopt either cruciform structures or Z-form DNA. This site is protected from specific cleavage by S1-nuclease by the high-mobility-group chromosomal proteins HMG1 and 2, which may be specifically acting to protect short sequences of single-stranded DNA.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6303323 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(83)91499-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN: 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575