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Histone octamer trans-transfer: a signature mechanism of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling unravelled in wheat nuclear extract

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Background and Scope In eukaryotes, chromatin remodelling complexes are shown to be responsible for
nucleosome mobility, leading to increased accessibility of DNA for DNA binding proteins. Although the existence of such complexes in plants has been surmised mainly at the genetic level from bioinformatics studies and analysis of mutants, the biochemical existence of such complexes has remained unexplored.
Methods Histone H1-depleted donor chromatin was prepared by micrococcal nuclease digestion of wheat nuclei
and fractionation by exclusion chromatography. Nuclear extract was partially purified by cellulose phosphate ion exchange chromatography. Histone octamer trans-transfer activity was analysed using the synthetic nucleosome positioning sequence in the absence and presence of ATP and its analogues. ATPase activity was measured as 32Pi released using liquid scintillation counting.
Key Results ATP-dependent histone octamer trans-transfer activity, partially purified from wheat nuclei using cellulose phosphate, showed ATP-dependent octamer displacement in trans from the H1-depleted native donor chromatin of wheat to the labelled synthetic nucleosome positioning sequence. It also showed nucleosomedependent ATPase activity. Substitution of ATP by ATP analogues, namely ATPgS, AMP-PNP and ADP abolished the octamer trans-transfer, indicating the requirement of ATP hydrolysis for this activity.
Conclusions ATP-dependent histone octamer transfer in trans is a recognized activity of chromatin remodelling complexes required for chromatin structure dynamics in non-plant species. Our results suggested that wheat nuclei also possess a typical chromatin remodelling activity, similar to that in other eukaryotes. This is the first report on chromatin remodelling activity in vitro from plants.
Key words: ATPase, chromatin remodelling, histone, octamer-transfer, SWI/SNF-like complex, wheat, Triticum
aestivum.

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Annals of Botany

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: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company., 2011

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Annals of Botany 108: 1235–1246, 2011

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