Short Communication
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Biological Chemistry
- Vol. 379 (8-9), 1181-1212
- https://doi.org/10.1515/bchm.1998.379.8-9.1181
Abstract
Mcm (minichromosome maintenance) proteins are important components of the eukaryotic replication initiation apparatus. We investigate the binding of human Mcm proteins to HeLa cell chromatin using micrococcal nuclease as a tool. In previous work we prepared chromatin under low ionic strength conditions. The use of a low salt buffer was necessary to prevent the dissociation of Mcm proteins. Here we use chromatin prepared at more physiological salt concentrations (100 mM NaCl) following the procedure of Fujita et al. (J. Biol. Chem. 272, 10928-10935; 1997) who had shown that ATP stabilizes the interaction of Mcm proteins with chromatin. We show here that micrococcal nuclease released Mcm proteins early during the digestion process suggesting that Mcm proteins reside on chromatin sites which are more open to nuclease attack than bulk chromatin. Released Mcm proteins sedimented through glycerol gradients as a multiprotein complex comprising several of the six known human Mcm proteins.Keywords
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