| Literature DB >> 8286360 |
S E Wellman1, D B Sittman, J B Chaires.
Abstract
We have investigated the binding of a pure H1 histone, the mouse variant H1e, to a 214 bp fragment of DNA from pBR322. Binding was monitored by observing the effects of the protein on melting of the DNA and by a gel-mobility-shift assay. We found, using this highly purified system, that H1e protein binds preferentially and cooperatively to the GC-rich region of the DNA. A chemically synthesized peptide containing 25 residues, corresponding to a region of the carboxyl-terminal domain of H1e, shows the same sequence preference but does not exhibit cooperativity.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 8286360 DOI: 10.1021/bi00167a049
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochemistry ISSN: 0006-2960 Impact factor: 3.162