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Nucleic Acids Research, 1979, Vol. 6, No. 2 609-623
© 1979

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Urea-induced binding of histone 1 to nucleosomes lacking linker DNA

Stuart A. Newman and Paige Noon

Department of Biological Sciences, The University at Albany Albany, NY 12222, USA

Received July 3, 1978. The binding of H1 (and H5) to nucleosome core particles was demonstrated by separating mononucleosomes according to their DNA size on acrylamide gels containing high molarity urea. The presence of urea causes a redistribution of H1 so that it associates with some particles of all linker lengths, including no linker. When the urea is removed the H1 remains associated with particles of all DNA sizes if the different size classes are not mixed with each other. Therefore, urea can effect the transfer of H1 from particles with linker to particles with no linker. When nucleosomes of uniform DNA fragment length, some containing and some lacking H1, are re-electrophoresed under native conditions, they migrate as two widely separated bands. The mobilities of these variants do not depend on linker length and are identical to the mobilities of native H1-containing and H1-lacking particles. When the same collection of particles is electrophoresed in the presence of high molarity urea they migrate with a uniform mobility. These results suggest that H1-containing nucleosomes are conformationally different from H1-lacking particles, but that this difference is eliminated when histone-histone interactions are disrupted by urea.


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