Abstract
A method is suggested for isolation of highly purified mouse centromeric heterochromatin. Treatment of mouse liver nuclei with decreasing concentrations of Ca 2+ resulted in the gradual unraveling of chromatin in the nucleus and at 0.1 m M Ca 2+ electron microscopy revealed several dense particles per nucleus, surrounded by decondensed chromatin. These particles, assumed to represent centromere regions of interphase chromosomes by in situ hybridization with radioactive mouse satellite DNA and by differential staining for centromere heterochromatin, were isolated in preparative amounts and their DNA and protein composition was analyzed. The preparation represented practically pure mouse centromere heterochromatin, since more than 90% of its DNA was satellite DNA.
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