scholarly journals DNA-nuclear matrix interactions analyzed by cross-linking reactions in intact nuclei from avian liver.

1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Ferraro ◽  
M Eufemi ◽  
L Cervoni ◽  
F Altieri ◽  
C Turano

To detect the interactions of DNA with the nuclear matrix proteins, DNA-protein cross-linkages were induced in intact nuclei from chicken liver by the use of cis-diammine dichloroplatinum. Methods have been devised for fast purification both of the proteins and of the DNA fragments involved in the cross-linked complexes. By Southern-Western blotting a number of matrix proteins isolated from the complexes have been shown to recognize specifically DNA sequences present in the cross-linked DNA fragments. This experimental approach not only allows to identify the nuclear matrix-DNA interactions existing in the nucleus before its disruption, but also provides a preparation of matrix proteins enriched in those species which are involved in such interactions and which can therefore be detected with high sensitivity.

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-366
Author(s):  
Svetlana Dinic ◽  
Mirjana Mihailovic ◽  
Svetlana Ivanovic-Matic ◽  
Aleksandra Uskokovic ◽  
Nevena Grdovic ◽  
...  

Participation of the nuclear matrix in regulation of alpha-2-macroglobulin (?2M) gene transcription during rat liver development and the acute-phase (AP) response are examined. DNA affinity chromatography of fetal and adult liver internal nuclear matrix proteins under basal and AP conditions with the ?2M gene promoter (-852/+12) and immunoblot analysis revealed diverse patterns of association of transcription factors with the nuclear matrix. HNF-6, C/EBP?, and STAT5b were involved in basal and C/EBP?, STAT1, and STAT3 in AP-stimulated ?2M expression. These findings support the assumption that transcription factor-nuclear matrix interactions serve to channel gene regulatory proteins to DNA sequences.


1993 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Widłak ◽  
J Rzeszowska-Wolny

The binding of [14C]benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) to DNA and proteins in total nuclei and subnuclear fractions of cultured rat hepatocytes was compared. The main targets of B[a]P were non-histone high molecular weight proteins of the nuclear matrix and DNA sequences attached to this structure. Following 24 h exposure to B[a]P the amounts of adducts in the nuclear matrix DNA and proteins were twice as high as in total nuclei. After withdrawal of the carcinogen containing medium the level of B[a]P-induced adducts gradually decreased but always remained the highest in the nuclear matrix proteins. Removal of adducts from the nuclear matrix DNA was more efficient than from the other DNA fractions, and 72 h after exposure to the carcinogen the level of DNA adducts in this fraction was similar to that in total nuclei.


1998 ◽  
Vol 238 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Mattia ◽  
Margherita Eufemi ◽  
Silvia Chichiarelli ◽  
Mara Ceridono ◽  
Anna Ferraro

1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
J Rogoliński ◽  
P Widłak ◽  
J Rzeszowska-Wolny

Using the Southwestern blot analysis we have studied the interactions between rat repetitive sequence MspI8 and the nuclear matrix proteins of rat testis cells. Starting from 2 weeks the young to adult animals showed differences in type of testis nuclear matrix proteins recognizing the MspI8 sequence. The same sets of nuclear matrix proteins were detected in some fractions enriched in spermatocytes and spermatides and obtained after fractionation of testis cells of adult animals by the velocity sedimentation technique.


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