TY - JOUR
T1 - Histones of sea urchin embryos. Transients in transcription, translation, and the composition of chromatin
AU - Senger, Donald R.
AU - Arceci, Robert J.
AU - Gross, Paul R.
N1 - Funding Information:
D.R.S. was supported by a Traineeship in Microbiology from the National Institutes of Health during the course of this work. R.J.A. is a participant in the Medical Scientist Training Program, supported by a NIH grant to that program. The experiments were part of a research program supported by Grant HD08562-03,04 from the National Institute of Child and Human Development, U.S. Public Health Service.
PY - 1978/8
Y1 - 1978/8
N2 - A previously unidentified histone, H1x, is encoded by a messenger RNA that is distinct from H1m mRNA. There is a rapid rise in the H1x:H1m mRNA ratio at the late eight-cell stage, just preceding the unequal fourth cleavage. This rise is blocked by actinomycin D. A similar rise in the ratio of H1 histones synthesized in vivo and incorporated into chromatin occurs at the same time. Late in the 16-cell stage, the H1x:H1m mRNA ratio falls to the oocyte ("maternal") level, and so does the ratio of H1 histones incorporated into chromatin. H1 synthesis was examined in the three different cell types of the 16-cell stage embryo, and differences in the relative synthesis of the two H1 histones were consistently observed. The divergence of histone synthesis pattern among the three cell types may be due to a divergence of cell cycle parameters following the fourth cleavage. These results have implications for the transcriptional regulation of histone synthesis and for the possibility of diverging chromatin composition and structure in very early development, at the time when determination is in progress.
AB - A previously unidentified histone, H1x, is encoded by a messenger RNA that is distinct from H1m mRNA. There is a rapid rise in the H1x:H1m mRNA ratio at the late eight-cell stage, just preceding the unequal fourth cleavage. This rise is blocked by actinomycin D. A similar rise in the ratio of H1 histones synthesized in vivo and incorporated into chromatin occurs at the same time. Late in the 16-cell stage, the H1x:H1m mRNA ratio falls to the oocyte ("maternal") level, and so does the ratio of H1 histones incorporated into chromatin. H1 synthesis was examined in the three different cell types of the 16-cell stage embryo, and differences in the relative synthesis of the two H1 histones were consistently observed. The divergence of histone synthesis pattern among the three cell types may be due to a divergence of cell cycle parameters following the fourth cleavage. These results have implications for the transcriptional regulation of histone synthesis and for the possibility of diverging chromatin composition and structure in very early development, at the time when determination is in progress.
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U2 - 10.1016/0012-1606(78)90037-4
DO - 10.1016/0012-1606(78)90037-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 680370
AN - SCOPUS:0018185752
SN - 0012-1606
VL - 65
SP - 416
EP - 425
JO - Developmental biology
JF - Developmental biology
IS - 2
ER -