HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION AND CHROMATIN STRUCTURE DURING MITOSIS IN CHINESE-HAMSTER CELLS
HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION AND CHROMATIN STRUCTURE DURING MITOSIS IN CHINESE-HAMSTER CELLS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1978.tb12135.x
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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TOBEY, RA
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GURLEY, LR;DANNA, JA;TOBEY, RA
Histone phosphorylation and chromatin structure were examined in synchronized CHO Chinese hamster cells during progression through mitosis. Cell population distribution in various phases of mitosis was determined by EM. Entry into mitosis occurred in 2 stages: the gathering of chromatin into aggregates of dense chromatin clumps during preprophase, followed by the condensation of these aggregates into chromosome structures during prophase. Exit from mitosis was observed essentially as the reverse process, chromosomes first being disorganized into dense chromatin clumps during telophase, followed by dispersion of these aggregates in early G1. Correlating these structural changes with histone phosphorylation revealed that interphase-type histone H1 phosphorylation (H11) involving 1-3 phosphates/molecule existed in interphase and during the chromatin aggregation stages of mitosis (preprophase and telophase). No histone H3 phosphorylation occurred during these periods of the cell cycle. H11 phosphorylation may be involved with the submicroscopic changes in chromatin organization observed during interphase using molecular probes of chromatin structure. During mitosis, histone phosphorylation was correlated with microscopic chromatin structural changes. During the 2nd stage of mitosis (prophase, metaphase and anaphase), when chromosome structures were fully condensed, virtually all histone H1 existed as superphosphorylated molecules (H1M) containing 3-6 phosphates, and all histone H3 molecules were phosphorylated. Exit of cells from anaphase correlated closely with the dephosphorylation of H3 to unphosphorylated H3 and with the dephosphorylation of H1M to subphosphorylated H1 containing 0-3 phosphates. Further dephosphorylation of subphosphorylated H11 to unphosphorylated H1 occurred as these cells left telophase and entered G1. H1M superphosphorylation and H3 phosphorylation are strictly mitotic events which occur only when chromosomes are fully condensed. The absence of Colcemid in some of these experiments eliminates the possibility that H1M and H3 phosphorylations are artifacts of the Colcemid treatment. Histones H1 and H3 may impose a restriction on chromatin structure which prevents chromosome condensation during interphase, and the H1M and H3 phosphorylations remove this restriction during mitosis.