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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 108, Issue 3, Pages 565-576Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22288
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BRG1; BRM; BAF PROTEINS; CHROMATIN REMODELLING
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- Swedish Research Council [2006-5419]
- Cancer Foundation [CAN 2008/873]
- Carl Trygger Foundation
- Magnus Bergvall's Foundation
- Nilsson-Ehle Foundation
- Foundation for Lars Hiertas Minne
- Marcus Borgstrom's Foundation
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The ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling complexes SWI/SNF alter the chromatin structure in transcriptional regulation. Several classes of mammalian SWI/SNF complex have been isolated biochemically, distinguished by a few specific subunits, such as the BAF-specific BAF250A, BAF250B and BRM, and the PBAF-specific BAF 180. We have determined the complex compositions using low stringency immunoprecipitation (IP) and shown that the pattern of subunit interactions was more diverse than previously defined classes had predicted. The subunit association at five gene promoters that depend on the SWI/SNF activity varied and the sequential chromatin immunoprecipitations revealed that different class-specific subunits occupied the promoters at the same time. The low-stringency IP showed that the BAF-specific BAF250A and BAF250B and the PBAF-specific BAF180 co-exist in a subset of SWI/SNF complexes, and fractionation of nuclear extract on size-exclusion chromatography demonstrated that sub-complexes with unorthodox subunit compositions were present in the cell. We propose a model in which the constellations of SWI/SNF complexes are tailored for each specific chromatin target and depend on the local chromatin environment to which complexes and sub-complexes are recruited. J. Cell. Biochem. 108: 565-576, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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