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Mol Cell Biol. 1987 January; 7(1): 478-485

Isolation, characterization, and expression of the gene encoding the late histone subtype H1-gamma of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

ABSTRACT

We cloned and characterized the gene encoding H1-gamma, a late histone subtype of the sea urchin species Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. The predicted primary sequence of H1-gamma is 216 amino acids in length and has a net charge of +70, which is high for a somatic H1 histone. The H1-gamma gene appears to be a unique sequence gene that is not tightly linked to the core histone genes. The 770-base-pair transcribed region of the H1-gamma gene is bordered on the 5' side by two previously described H1-specific sequence elements and on the 3' side by a hairpin loop structure and CAGA box sequences. We detected 3,900 stored maternal H1-gamma mRNA transcripts per egg. The number of H1-gamma transcripts per embryo rises by 9.5 h postfertilization, but the maximum rate of accumulation (4,300 molecules per min per embryo) occurs in the late-blastula-stage embryo between 14 and 21 h after fertilization. The number of H1-gamma mRNA molecules peaks 21 h after fertilization when there are 2.0 X 10(6) molecules per embryo (a 500-fold increase) and then decreases over the next 3.25 h to 1.3 million molecules per embryo. Between 24 and 82 h after fertilization the number of H1-gamma transcripts declines steadily (210 molecules per min per embryo) to reach approximately 5.4 X 10(5) H1-gamma mRNAs by 82 h postfertilization. Surprisingly, the number of late H1 mRNA molecules per embryo is greater than the number of late H2B mRNA molecules beginning at the early gastrula stage of development.

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