On the organization of the nucleosomes associated with telomeric sequences

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1803, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1058-1061

  Gámez Arjona, Francisco M ^a   López López, Carmen ^a   Vaquero Sedas, María I ^a   Vega Palas, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Nucleosome positioning; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CRICETULUS; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; EUKARYOTA;

NUCLEOSOME; SPACER DNA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA, INTERGENIC; NUCLEOSOMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

EID: 77954957206     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.03.021     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Blackburn E. Telomeres and telomerase: their mechanisms of action and the effects of altering their functions. FEBS Lett. 2005, 579:859-862.
2. Cech T. Beginning to understand the end of the chromosome. Cell 2004, 43:405-413.
3. Greider C. Telomerase RNA levels limit the telomere length equilibrium. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 2006, 71:225-229.
4. Meyne J., Baker R., Hobart H., Hsu T., Ryder O., Ward O., Wiley J., Wurster-Hill D., Yates T., Moyzis R. Distribution of non-telomeric sites of the (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence in vertebrate chromosomes. Chromosoma 1990, 99:3-10.
5. Lin K., Yan J. Endings in the middle: current knowledge of interstitial telomeric sequences. Mutat. Res. 2008, 658:95-110.
6. Richards E., Goodman H., Ausubel F. The centromere region of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 1 contains telomere-similar sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 1991, 19:3351-3357.
7. Richards E., Ausubel F. Isolation of a higher eukaryotic telomere from Arabidopsis thaliana. Cell 1988, 53:127-136.
8. Shakirov E., Shippen D. Length regulation and dynamics of individual telomere tracts in wild-type Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 2004, 16:1959-1967.
9. Regad F., Lebas M., Lescure B. Interstitial telomeric repeats within the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. J. Mol. Biol. 1994, 239:163-169.
10. Uchida W., Matsunaga S., Sugiyama R., Kawano S. Interstitial telomere-like repeats in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Genes Genet. Syst. 2002, 77:63-67.
11. Riha K., Watson J., Parkey J., Shippen D. Telomere length deregulation and enhanced sensitivity to genotoxic stress in Arabidopsis mutants deficient in Ku70. EMBO J. 2002, 21:2819-2826.
12. Drew H., Calladine C. Sequence-specific positioning of core histones on an 860 base-pair DNA. Experiment and theory. J. Mol. Biol. 1987, 195:143-173.
13. Anselmi C., Bocchinfuso G., De Santis P., Savino M., Scipioni A. Dual role of DNA intrinsic curvature and flexibility in determining nucleosome stability. J. Mol. Biol. 1999, 286:1293-1301.
14. Mengeritsky G., Trifonov E. Nucleotide sequence-directed mapping of the nucleosomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 1983, 11:3833-3851.
15. Pisano S., Galati A., Cacchione S. Telomeric nucleosomes: Forgotten players at chromosome ends. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 2008, 65:3553-3563.
16. Travers A., Drew H. DNA recognition and nucleosome organization. Biopolymers 1997, 44:423-433.
17. Fajkus J., KovariK A., Kralovics R., Bezdek M. Organization of telomeric and subtelomeric chromatin in the higher plant Nicotiana tabacum. Mol. Gen. Genet. 1995, 247:633-638.
18. Pisano S., Marchioni E., Galati A., Mechelli R., Savino M., Cacchione S. Telomeric nucleosomes are intrinsically mobile. J. Mol. Biol. 2007, 369:1153-1162.
19. Cacchione S., Cerone M., Savino M. In vitro low propensity to form nucleosomes of four telomeric sequences. FEBS Lett. 1997, 400:37-41.
20. Filesi I., Cacchione S., De Santis P., Rossetti L., Savino M. The main role of the sequence-dependent DNA elasticity in determining the free energy of nucleosome formation on telomeric DNAs. Biophys. Chem. 2000, 83:223-237.
21. Rossetti L., Cacchione S., Fuà M., Savino M. Nucleosome assembly on telomeric sequences. Biochemistry 1998, 37:6727-6737.
22. Mechelli R., Anselmi C., Cacchione S., De Santis P., Savino M. Organization of telomeric nucleosomes: atomic force microscopy imaging and theoretical modeling. FEBS Lett. 2004, 566:131-135.
23. Pisano S., Pascucci E., Cacchione S., De Santis P., Savino M. AFM imaging and theoretical modeling studies of sequence-dependent nucleosome positioning. Biophys. Chem. 2006, 124:81-89.
24. Makarov V., Lejnine S., Bedoyan J., Langmore J. Nucleosomal organization of telomere-specific chromatin in rat. Cell 1993, 73:775-787.
25. Tommerup H., Dousmanis A., de Lange T. Unusual chromatin in human telomeres. Mol. Cell. Biol. 1994, 14:5777-5785.
26. Vershinin A., Heslop-Harrison J. Comparative analysis of the nucleosomal structure of rye, wheat and their relatives. Plant Mol Biol. 1998, 36:149-161.
27. Allshire R., Gosden J., Cross S., Cranston G., Rout D., Sugawara N., Szostak J., Fantes P., Hastie N. Telomeric repeat from T. thermophila cross hybridizes with human telomeres. Nature 1988, 332:656-659.
28. Kipling D., Cooke H. Hypervariable ultra-long telomeres in mice. Nature 1990, 347:400-402.
29. Moyzis R., Buckingham J., Cram L., Dani M., Deaven L., Jones M., Meyne J., Ratliff R., Wu J. A highly conserved repetitive DNA sequence, (TTAGGG)n, present at the telomeres of human chromosomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1988, 85:6622-6626.
30. Starling J., Maule J., Hastie N., Allshire R. Extensive telomere repeat arrays in mouse are hypervariable. Nucleic Acids Res. 1990, 18:6881-6888.
31. Faravelli M., Azzalin C., Bertoni L., Chernova O., Attolini C., Mondello C., Giulotto E. Molecular organization of internal telomeric sequences in Chinese hamster chromosomes. Gene 2002, 283:11-16.
32. Revaud D., Mozziconacci J., Sabatier L., Desmaze C., Lavelle C. Sequence-driven telomeric chromatin structure. Cell Cycle 2009, 8:1099-1100.
33. Benetti R., Schoeftner S., Muñoz P., Blasco M. Role of TRF2 in the assembly of telomeric chromatin. Cell Cycle 2008, 7:3461-3468.
34. Yanisch-Perron C., Vieira J., Messing J. Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors. Gene 1985, 33:103-119.