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The endonuclease DNase II preferentially attacks a limited and tissue-specific portion of chromosomal DNA. This material may be separated from the bulk of chromatin DNA by virtue of its solubility in 2 mM MgCl2. The Mg2+ soluble fraction forms a specific subset of DNA sequences and is enriched four to sevenfold in sequences coding for cytoplasmic poly(A)-containing RNA and globin messenger RNA (in globin-producing cells). The bulk (70--90%) of rapidly labelled RNA is found associated with the Mg2+-soluble fraction. Transcriptionally active, Mc2+-soluble chromatin is organized into repeating subunits of DNA (200 +/- 5 base pairs) and histone. Mc2+-soluble active subunits differ from the subunits or nucleosomes of non-transcribed regions in many respects: namely, chemical composition (non-histone protein and RNA), sedimentation properties, differential sensitivity to DNase I and the single-strand-specific nuclease S1, and optical melting behaviour. These results suggest that chromatin subunits adopt a new configuration during the process of transcription.
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PMID:Organization of transcribed regions of chromatin. 2 80

A deoxyribonuclease inhibitor has been purified from KB cells by chromatography on single-stranded DNA-cellulose. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed the purified preparation to contain two major polypeptides in sodium dodecyl sulfate, with molecular weights of 72,000 and 65,000, but only one major band (with a molecular weight of approximately 140,000) after electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions. The protein inhibits the hydrolysis of single-stranded DNA by KB DNase, DNase I, DNase II, and nuclease S1, but has no effect on the hydrolysis of double-stranded DNA by these enzymes. The inhibitor causes a reduction in the rate of hydrolysis of DNA by the deoxyribonuclease, probably by reducing the effective concentration of substrate.
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PMID:A deoxyribonucleic acid binding protein from KB cells which inhibits deoxyribonuclease activity on single-stranded DNA. 42 57

Non-membranous HeLa cell nuclear ghosts, representing non-membranous nuclear envelope or 'skeletal' components, have been examined in whole-mount fashion by transmission electron microscopy. Major components of the ghosts include annuli with inner and outer diameters of 43 and 90 nm, respectively, which are consistent in dimensions with nuclear pore complexes. Also present are rod-like images (260 nm in length and 50 nm in width or diameter) representing either previously unobserved nuclear structures, or condensations of repeating functional units not otherwise observable. The annular and rod-like images were also observed when various steps in the ghost isolation procedure, such as the use of detergents, 0.5 M MgCl2 and polylysine attachment of the ghosts to electron-microscope grids, were circumvented. The annular and rod-like images are connected into linear and polygonal arrays by strands (15-30 nm in width) that are sensitive to DNase I and DNase II but resistant to nuclease S1. Thus, although the non-membranous ghosts from HeLa cells are composed primarily of protein, enzymic dissection indicates that their gross integrity is markedly dependent on double-stranded DNA. Nuclear ghosts prepared from a wide range of species including mammals, birds and plants, exhibited essentially the same components and organization.
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PMID:The ultrastructure of non-membranous nuclear ghosts. 70 96

Digestion of fixed metaphase chromosomes by endonucleases (micrococcal nuclease and DNase II) under optimal digestion conditions followed by Giemsa staining produces sharp banding patterns identical to G-bands. In 3H-thymidine labeled, synchronized metaphase cells of the chinese hamster (CHO line), the band induction is accompanied by the removal of DNA. The single strand specific nuclease S1 and DNase I do not produce such banding patterns.
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PMID:Responses of mammalian metaphase chromosomes to endonuclease digestion. 74 3

The adenovirus-specific DNA-binding protein (DBP) has been shown to inhibit the hydrolysis of single-stranded DNA by a DNase isolated from KB cells, (Nass, K., and Frenkel, G.D. (1980). J. Virol. 35, 314-319). The specificity of the inhibition has now been investigated. The DBP inhibits the hydrolysis of single-stranded DNA by several different DNases (DNase II, KB DNase, S1 nuclease) under a variety of reaction conditions, but it has no effect on DNase I-catalyzed hydrolysis of single-stranded DNA. The DBP also inhibits the rate of hydrolysis of double-stranded DNA by KB DNase and DNase II, but has no effect on DNase I-catalyzed hydrolysis of this substrate. The DBP also inhibits the dephosphorylation of 5'-phosphoryl-terminated DNA by bacterial alkaline phosphatase but stimulates the phosphorylation of 5'-hydroxyl-terminated DNA by polynucleotide kinase.
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PMID:DNase inhibition by the adenovirus DNA-binding protein exhibits specificity for the enzyme but not for the secondary structure of the DNA. 630 53

A detailed analysis of the length distribution of DNA in nucleosome dimers trimmed with exonuclease III and S1 nuclease suggests that the previously described variation of internucleosomal distance in rat liver occurs, at least for a subset of the nucleosomes, by integral multiples of the helical repeat of the DNA. Results obtained upon digestion of chromatin with DNase II further suggest that lengths of internucleosomal DNA are integral multiples of the helical repeat of the DNA plus approximately 5 bp. Restraints imposed by these features on the arrangement of nucleosomes along the fiber are discussed.
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PMID:Organization of internucleosomal DNA in rat liver chromatin. 1189 8