Abstract
1. Transcription of ox brain chromatin by brain nuclear RNA polymerase II and Escherichia coli RNA polymerase was studied. 2. The soluble chromatin prepared from brain nuclei contained DNA, RNA, histone and non-histone proteins. Such chromatin preparations did not display any endogenous RNA polymerase activity, when assayed in the presence of concentrations of KCl as high as 0.4m. 3. The chromatin-templated activity of brain nuclear polymerase II was stimulated by KCl, with an optimum around 0.25m. 4. The template activity of brain chromatin for brain nuclear polymerase II and E. coli enzyme was about 20-25% of that of pure DNA. This greatly repressed templatecapacity of chromatin was probably due to the acid-soluble chromosomal proteins. 5. Brain nuclear polymerase II was 3-4 times more active with dehistonized chromatin than with pure DNA as template, whereas bacterial enzyme was almost equally active with either of these two templates, reflecting the specificity of the transcriptional control mechanisms in mammalian cells.
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