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Measuring Nucleosome Assembly Activity in vitro with the Nucleosome Assembly and Quantification (NAQ) Assay
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2018-02-05
[Abstract]  Nucleosomes organize the eukaryotic genome into chromatin. In cells, nucleosome assembly relies on the activity of histone chaperones, proteins with high binding affinity to histones. At least a subset of histone chaperones promotes histone deposition in vivo. However, it has been challenging to characterize this activity, due to the lack of quantitative assays.

Here we developed a quantitative nucleosome assembly (NAQ) assay to measure the amount of nucleosome formation in vitro. This assay relies on a Micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion step that yields DNA fragments protected by the deposited histone proteins. A subsequent run on the Bioanalyzer machine allows the accurate quantification of the fragments (length and amount), relative to a loading ...
[摘要]  核小体将真核生物基因组组装成染色质。在细胞中,核小体装配依赖于组蛋白分子伴侣的活性,对组蛋白具有高结合亲和力的蛋白。至少有一部分组蛋白伴侣促进组蛋白在体内的沉积。然而,由于缺乏定量分析,鉴定这种活性一直是一个挑战。

在这里,我们开发了一种定量核小体装配(NAQ)测定来测量体外核小体形成的量。该测定依赖于微球菌核酸酶(MNase)。随后在生物分析仪上运行,可以准确量化相对于加样对照的片段(长度和数量)。这使我们能够测量约150bp的DNA长度。该测定最终实现了不同组蛋白分子伴侣的核小体装配活性的表征,这是理解这些蛋白体内功能作用的一个步骤。

【背景】真核生物基因组被组织成核小体。核小体是由组蛋白八聚体核心组成的模块化和动态结构,由147bp的DNA包裹(Luger等人,1997)。核小体组装始于一个(H3-H4)2四聚体沉积到DNA上以形成四体体。随后的H2A-H2B二聚体结合形成六聚体,最后形成核小体。组蛋白高度带电,因为它们以生理盐浓度存在于组蛋白二聚体中。由于它们的作用,组蛋白需要分子伴侣将它们从细胞质穿梭到细胞核,然后辅助它们沉积到DNA上或从DNA上去除(Gurard-Levin等人,2014)。

组蛋白分子伴侣分组在结构上不相关的蛋白质家族中,所有这些蛋白质的特征在于对组蛋白的高度结合亲和力(Laskey等,1978)。通过这种方式,他们屏蔽了组蛋白的电荷,阻止了与DNA和其他细胞因子的非特异性相互作用(Elsässerand ...

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