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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 June; 5(6): 1287-1294

Localization of specific rDNA spacer sequences to the mouse L-cell nucleolar matrix.

R I Bolla, D C Braaten, Y Shiomi, M B Hebert and D Schlessinger

ABSTRACT

Mouse L-cell nucleoli were isolated from sonicated nuclei by centrifugation and extensively treated with pancreatic DNase or micrococcal nuclease to obtain "core nucleoli." Core nucleoli still contained the precursors to rRNA and about 1% of the total nuclear DNA, which remained tightly bound even after the removal of some chromatin proteins with 2 M NaCl. The core nucleolar DNA electrophoresed in a series of discrete bands, 20 to about 200 base pairs in length. Hybridization tests with specific DNA probes showed that the DNA was devoid of sequences complementary to mouse satellite, mouse Alu-like, and 5S RNA sequences. It also lacked sequences coding for cytoplasmic rRNA species, since it did not hybridize to the 18S to 28S portion of rDNA in Northern blot analyses and none of it was protected by hybridization to a 100-fold excess of total cytoplasmic RNA in S1 nuclease assays. However, the core nucleolar DNA did hybridize to nontranscribed and external transcribed spacer rDNA sequences. We infer that specific portions of rDNA are protected from DNase action by a tight association with nucleolar structural proteins.

Mol Cell Biol. 1985 June; 5(6): 1287-1294




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