Using fluorescence in situ hybridization, conventional epifluorescence microscopy, and laser scanning confocal microscopy followed by three-dimensional reconstruction we describe a well-defined… (More)
Nucleosome core particles differing in their levels of histone acetylation have been formed on a closed circular DNA that contains a tandemly repeated 207 bp nucleosome positioning sequence. The… (More)
The DNA in human sperm chromatin is packaged into nucleoprotamine (approximately 85%) and nucleohistone (approximately 15%). Whether these two chromatin fractions are sequence-specific subsets of the… (More)
We report on a dynamic aspect of nucleosome positioning, in the absence of transcription-related events, on sea urchin 5 S rDNA. On tandem repeats of nucleosome length DNA of this strongly… (More)
We have used fluorescent in situ hybridization to localize telomeres within the nuclei of sperm from six mammals (human, rat, mouse, stallion, boar, and bull). In minimally swollen sperm of mouse and… (More)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1992
We have shown that nontransformed mammalian cells arrest early in the G1 phase of the cell cycle when treated with exceedingly low concentrations of the nonspecific kinase inhibitor staurosporine,… (More)
The mouse cell FT210 was isolated as a G2 phase mutant with a possible defect in the histone H1 kinase. We determined that a temperature-sensitive lesion in this cell line lies in the CDC2 gene. DNA… (More)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1995
The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) consists of three polypeptide components: Ku-70, Ku-80, and an approximately 350-kDa catalytic subunit (p350). The gene encoding the Ku-80 subunit is… (More)
The induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by ionizing radiation in mammalian chromosomes leads to the phosphorylation of Ser-139 in the replacement histone H2AX, but the molecular mechanism(s)… (More)
Histone h4 is a highly conserved structural component of the nucleosome subunit of chromatin. The activation of chromatin is accompanied by changes in structure which may be caused by histone… (More)