INVIVO METHYLATION AND TURNOVER OF RAT-BRAIN HISTONES
INVIVO METHYLATION AND TURNOVER OF RAT-BRAIN HISTONES
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1471-4159.1974.tb06057.x
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
LEE, CT
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作者:
DUERRE, JA;LEE, CT
The turnover of the different histone components from brain nuclei was studied after the administration ofl‐[3H]lysine andl‐[14C‐methyl]methionine to newborn rats. The radioactivities of the different histone subfractions as well as other proteins were determined over a 280‐day period. Biphasic type decay curves (3H and14C) were obtained for total brain histones and all the subfractions. From 6 to 40 days of age the half life of total brain histones was 19 days. After reaching brain maturity the half life was 132 days. The lysine rich histone (F1) was found to turnover the fastest of all the histones, having half lives of 13 and 112 days, respectively. The decay curve for the slightly lysine rich histones (F2a2, F2b) gave half lives of 25 days up to 40 days of age and 189 days after reaching brain maturity. The arginine rich histones (F2a1, F3) gave a half life of 32 days up to 40 days of age, while no turnover was observed after maturity. The turnover rates of the methyl groups and/or methionyl residues did not vary significantly from the turnover rates of the lysyl residues in the F2and F3histones. The lysine‐rich histones did not contain significant amounts of methionyl residues or methyl groups.Amino acid analysis of the brain histones revealed that about 3·6 per cent of the lysyl residues in the slightly lysine rich histones were methylated, mainly as ε‐N‐dimethyllysine. About 13 per cent of the lysyl residues in the arginine rich histones were methylated, mainly as ε‐N‐monomethyllysine and ε‐N‐dimethyllysine.