Journal
CHROMOSOME RESEARCH
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 405-424Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009262819961
Keywords
chromatin organization; heat shock; histone H1
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation was employed to determine whether or not the previously reported depletion of histone H1 on actively transcribed sequences was selective with respect to H1 subtypes. DNA of immunofractionated chromatin was analyzed by slot-blots for repetitive sequences and PCR for single and low-copy sequences. Based on the analysis of a diverse set of sequences, we report distinct differences in subtype distributions. Actively transcribed chromatin, as well as chromatin poised for transcription, is characterized by a relative depletion of somatic H1 subtypes 2 and 4 (H1(s)-2 and H1(s)-4), whereas facultative and constitutive heterochromatin contain all four somatic subtypes. These results support a model in which subtypes are selectively depleted upon gene expression. In turn, the data also support the possibility that the somatic subtypes have different functional roles based on their selective depletion from different classes of DNA sequences.
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