title: Arrangement of a highly repeated DNA sequence in the genome and chromatin of the African green monkey.
abstract: The DNA of the African green monkey contains three components that are distinguishable by the kinetics of reassociation. The rapidly reassociating component represents about 20% of the total DNA and is composed almost entirely of a sequence (AGMr(HindIII)-1) which is repeated 6.8 x 10(6) times. The majority of the AGMr(HindIII)-1 sequences are organized in long tandem repeats of a segment of 172 base pairs in length. However, a fraction of the AGMr (HindIII)-1 sequences is interspersed with another 37% of the genome. The structure of the chromatin containing the AGMr-(HindIII)-1 sequence is indistinguishable from that containing total DNA. Furthermore, there is nothing inherent in the nucleotide sequence of AGMr(HindIII)-1 which specifies a unique location for nucleosomes.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D002843:Chromatin / Q000032:analysis*; D004247:DNA; D005796:Genes; D000882:Haplorhini; D007700:Kinetics; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009695:Nucleic Acid Renaturation
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D004247:DNA