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Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding

A maternal store of histones in unfertilized sea urchin eggs is demonstrated by two independent criteria. Stored histones are identified by their ability to assemble into chromatin of male pronuclei of fertilized sea urchin eggs in the absence of protein synthesis, suggesting a minimum of at least 2...

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Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2111873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7197275
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description A maternal store of histones in unfertilized sea urchin eggs is demonstrated by two independent criteria. Stored histones are identified by their ability to assemble into chromatin of male pronuclei of fertilized sea urchin eggs in the absence of protein synthesis, suggesting a minimum of at least 25 haploid equivalents for each histone present and functional in the unfertilized egg. In addition, electrophoretic analysis of proteins from acid extracts of unfertilized whole eggs and enucleated merogons reveals protein spots comigrating with cleavage stage histone standards, though not with other histone variants found in later sea urchin development or in sperm. Quantification of the amount of protein per histone spot yields an estimate of several hundred haploid DNA equivalents per egg of stored histone. The identity of some of the putative histones was verified by a highly sensitive immunological technique, involving electrophoretic transfer of proteins from the two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose filters. Proteins in amounts less than 2 x 10(-4) micrograms can be detected by this method.
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spelling pubmed-21118732008-05-01 Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding J Cell Biol Articles A maternal store of histones in unfertilized sea urchin eggs is demonstrated by two independent criteria. Stored histones are identified by their ability to assemble into chromatin of male pronuclei of fertilized sea urchin eggs in the absence of protein synthesis, suggesting a minimum of at least 25 haploid equivalents for each histone present and functional in the unfertilized egg. In addition, electrophoretic analysis of proteins from acid extracts of unfertilized whole eggs and enucleated merogons reveals protein spots comigrating with cleavage stage histone standards, though not with other histone variants found in later sea urchin development or in sperm. Quantification of the amount of protein per histone spot yields an estimate of several hundred haploid DNA equivalents per egg of stored histone. The identity of some of the putative histones was verified by a highly sensitive immunological technique, involving electrophoretic transfer of proteins from the two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose filters. Proteins in amounts less than 2 x 10(-4) micrograms can be detected by this method. The Rockefeller University Press 1981-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2111873/ /pubmed/7197275 Text en This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title_full Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title_fullStr Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title_full_unstemmed Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title_short Electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
title_sort electrophoretic analysis of the stored histone pool in unfertilized sea urchin eggs: quantification and identification by antibody binding
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2111873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7197275