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Optical absorbance and optical rotatory dispersion studies on calf thymus nucleohistone

  • Dorothy Y.H. Tuan(corresponding author)
    ,
  • James Bonner
*Corresponding author for this work
  • California Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Optical absorption and optical rotatory dispersion studies of native nucleohistone and of nucleohistone fully or partially and selectively dissociated into DNA and histone, show that (1) the conformation of whole histone mixtures as well as of individual histone fractions is highly ionic strength dependent and that the conformation of histone in association with DNA approximates that of free histone in solutions of high ionic strength; (2) the conformation of DNA in native nucleohistone is altered as compared to free DNA; and (3) neither lysinerich histone I nor non-histone protein is responsible for the conformational characteristics of DNA in nucleohistone.

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English (US)

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 59-76 (18 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Molecular Biology (Volume 45, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 10/14/1969

Publication status

Published - 10/14/1969

ISSN

0022-2836

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  • Scopus: 0014675032
  • PubMed: 5387945

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Funding Details

We thank ProfessorN orman Davidson and Dr Roger Chalkley for helpful disoussions and suggeatione. This work was supportedi n part by U. S. Publia Health Service grant CM 13782and the M&&m Fund of the Celifornie Institute of Technology.
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