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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 111, Issue 24 3663-3673, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

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Nucleoskeleton and initiation of DNA replication in metazoan cells

JM Ortega and ML DePamphilis
Departamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

To determine whether or not initiation sites for DNA replication in mammalian cells are defined by association with nuclear structure, attachments between the nucleoskeleton and the hamster DHFR gene initiation zone were examined. Nucleoskeletons were prepared by encapsulating cells in agarose and then extracting them with a nonionic detergent in a physiological buffer. The fraction of DNA that remained following endonuclease digestion was resistant to salt, sensitive to Sarkosyl, and essentially unchanged by glutaraldehyde crosslinking. Although newly replicated DNA was preferentially attached to the nucleoskeleton, no specific sequence was preferentially attached within a 65 kb locus containing the DHFR gene, two origins of bi-directional replication and at least one nuclear matrix attachment region. Instead, the entire region went from preferentially unattached to preferentially attached as cells progressed from G1 to late S-phase. Thus, initiation sites in mammalian chromosomes are not defined by attachments to the nucleoskeleton. To further assess the relationship between the nucleoskeleton and DNA replication, plasmid DNA containing the DHFR initiation region was replicated in a Xenopus egg extract. All of the DNA associated with the nucleoskeleton prior to S-phase without preference for a particular sequence and was released upon mitosis. However, about half of this DNA was trapped rather than bound to the nucleoskeleton. Thus, attachments to the nucleoskeleton can form in the absence of either DNA replication or transcription, but if they are required for replication, they are not maintained once replication is completed.


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