Nucleosomal instability and induction of new upstream protein-DNA associations accompany activation of four small heat shock protein genes in Drosophila melanogaster.
Open Access
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 6 (3), 779-791
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.6.3.779
Abstract
We investigated in detail the structural changes that occur in nuclear chromatin upon activation of the four small heat shock protein genes in D. melanogaster. Both the chemical cleavage reagent methidiumpropyl-EDTA X iron(II) [MPE X Fe(II)] and the nuclease DNase I revealed a complex pattern of four or five hypersensitive sites upstream of each gene before activation. In addition, MPE X Fe(II) detected a short positioned array of nucleosomes located on each coding region. Upon heat shock activation a number of changes in the patterns occurred. For each gene, at least one of the upstream hypersensitive regions was eliminated or substantially shifted in position. Regions were established which became highly refractile to digestion by either MPE X Fe(II) or DNase I and, as such, appeared as small "footprints" in the pattern. The location of these refractile regions relative to the cap site varied for each gene examined. The coding regions themselves became highly accessible to DNase I. The nucleosomal arrays detected by MPE X Fe(II) were characterized by a considerable loss of detail and significantly enhanced accessibility, the extent of which probably reflected the relative transcription rate of each gene. Careful mapping of the location and extent of each upstream footprint and comparison with the DNA sequence revealed the presence at each location of two (or more) contiguous or overlapping segments that bear high homology to the heat shock consensus sequence C-T-N-G-A-A-N-N-T-T-C-N-A-G. A specific protein factor (or factors) is most likely bound at or near these sequence in heat-shocked Drosophila cells.This publication has 61 references indexed in Scilit:
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