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Nucleosome assembly in vitro: separate histone transfer and synergistic interaction of native histone complexes purified from nuclei of Xenopus laevis oocytes.
Kleinschmidt JA, Seiter A, Zentgraf H.
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High speed supernatants of Xenopus laevis oocyte nuclei efficiently assemble DNA into nucleosomes in vitro under physiological salt conditions. The assembly activity cofractionates with two histone complexes composed of the acidic protein N1/N2 in complex with histones H3 and H4, and nucleoplasmin in complex with histones H2B and H2A. Both histone complexes have been purified and their nucleosome assembly activities have been analysed separately and in combination. While the histones from the N1/N2 complexes are efficiently transferred to DNA and induce supercoils into relaxed circular plasmid DNA, the nucleoplasmin complexes show no supercoil induction, but can also transfer their histones to DNA. In combination, the complexes act synergistically in supercoil induction thereby increasing the velocity and the number of supercoils induced. Electron microscopic analysis of the reaction products shows fully packaged nucleoprotein structures with the typical nucleosomal appearance resulting in a compaction ratio of 2.8 under low ionic strength conditions. The high mobility group protein HMG-1, which is also present in the soluble nuclear homogenate from X. laevis oocytes, is not required for nucleosome core assembly. Fractionation experiments show that the synergistic effect in the supercoiling reaction can be exerted by histones H3 and H4 bound to DNA and the nucleoplasmin complexes alone. This indicates that it is not the synchronous action of both complexes which is required for nucleosome assembly, but that their cooperative action can be resolved into two steps: deposition of H3 and H4 from the N1/N2 complexes onto the DNA and completion of nucleosome core formation by addition of H2B and H2A from the nucleoplasmin complexes.
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