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Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 23 5103-5109
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Circle ligation of in vitro assembled chromatin indicates a highly flexible structure

A. Stein*, Y. Dalal and T. J. Fleury

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 765 494 6546; Fax: +1 765 494 0876; Email: astein{at}bilbo.bio.purdue.edu

Evidence is provided that some condensed linker histone-containing chromatin structures are highly flexible in solutions containing 2 mM Mg2+. Chromatin assembled in vitro ± histone H5 on a 6.3 kb linear DNA fragment in 90 mM NaCl using the polyglutamic acid method sedimented fairly homogeneously. The H5-containing sample had s20, w values that were 58–69% greater than the sample lacking H5. Chromatin assembled on linear pUC19 plasmid DNA was treated with T4 DNA ligase in solutions containing 2 mM Mg2+ over a range of DNA concentrations. It was found that the intramolecular DNA ends of the chromatin could be joined together more efficiently than the intramolecular ends of the naked DNA at the higher DNA concentrations. This result could not be attributed to the effective reduction in DNA length by nucleosome formation. The chromatin structures formed did not have naked DNA tails extending from the ends as assessed by exonuclease III digestion. Chromatin assembled on DNA shortened by up to 420 bp gave very similar results, suggesting that the structure was a flexible one, rather than a rigid one having DNA ends that were fortuitously juxtaposed.


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