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Nucleic Acids Research, 1984, Vol. 12, No. 6 2691-2704
© 1984

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Compact structure of ribosomal chromatin in Xenopus laevis

Corrado Spadafora and Marco Crippa

Laboratoire d'Embryologie Moléculaire, Département de Biologie Animale, Ecole de Médecine 20, rue Ecole de Médecine, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland

Received January 16, 1984. Revised March 2, 1984. Accepted March 2, 1984.

Micrococcal nuclease digestion was used as a tool to study the organization of the ribosomal chromatin in liver, blood and embryo cells of X. laevis. It was found that in liver and blood cells, ribosomal DNA is efficiently protected from nuclease attack in comparison to bulk chromatin. Although ribosomal chromatin is fragmented in a typical nucleosomal pattern, a considerable portion of ribosomal DNA retains a high molecular weight even after extensive digestion. A greater accessibility of the coding region in comparison to the non-coding spacer was found. In embryos, when ribosomal DNA is fully transcribed, these genes are even more highly protected than in adult tissues: in fact, the nucleosomal ladder can hardly be detected and rDNA is preserved in high molecular weight. Treatment of chromatin with 0.8 M NaCl abolishes the specific resistance of the ribosomal chromatin to digestion. The ribosomal chromatin, particularly in its active state, seems to be therefore tightly complexed with chromosomal proteins which protect its DNA from nuclease degradation


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