Abstract
The influence of nucleosomes on the activity of two chromatin-associated apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) DNA endonuclease activities, p Is 9.2 and 9.8, from normal and xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group A (XPA), lymphoblastoid cells was examined. These AP endonuclease activities were studied on non-nucleosomal and nucleosomal plasmid pWT830/pBR322 DNA which had been reconstituted with core (H2A, H2B, H3, H4) or total (core plus H1) histones from normal or XPA cells. Both nucleosomal and non-nucleosomal DNA was rendered partially AP by alkylation with 12.5 mM methyl methane-sulfonate, followed by heating it at 70°C, to produce approximately three AP sites per DNA molecule. The activities of both normal lymphoblastoid AP endonuclease activities on nucleosomal AP DNA, reconstituted with core histones, was approximately 2.5 times greater than that on non-nucleosomal AP DNA. When histone H1 was added to the system, this increase was reduced. XPA AP endonuclease activities, on the other hand, did not show any increase in activity on nucleosomal AP DNA reconstituted with core histones. These differences between normal and XPA endonuclease activities on AP nucleosomal DNA were the same regardless of whether histones from normal or XPA cells were used in the reconstituted system.
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