title: Altered nucleosome structure containing DNA sequences complementary to 19S and 26S ribosomal RNA in Physarum polycephalum.
abstract: The localization of DNA sequences coding for ribosomal RNA was studied by hybridization of purified ribosomal RNA to DNA from chromatin fragments prepared by limited digestion of Physarum nuclei with staphylococcal nuclease. The 32P-labeled 19S and 26S RNA hybridized to DNA from nucleosome monomers, dimers, trimers, and higher oligomers, separated by sucrose gradient centrifugation, although the level of hybridization to DNA from nucleosome fractions was less than the level of hybridization to undigested nuclear DNA. The distribution of 19S and 26S rDNA sequences in the nucleosome fractions differed from the distribution of bulk DNA in that the rDNA sequences were recovered primarily in two fractions containing monomer-sized DNA lengths (140-160 base pairs). The percentage of DNA hybridizing to 19S plus 26S RNA was greater in peak A, the more slowly sedimenting monomer peak, than in any other chromatin fraction at all stages of digestion. Peak A and monomer particles differed in protein content and distribution. The presence of ribosomal cistrons in an altered nucleosome configuration may be related to changes in functional states of rDNA chromatin.
mesh_terms: D002843:Chromatin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000378:metabolism; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005796:Genes; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism; D008836:Micrococcal Nuclease / Q000378:metabolism; D010804:Physarum / Q000235:genetics; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D006657:Histones; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D004247:DNA; D008836:Micrococcal Nuclease
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