The Organization of Interphase Chromatin in Drosophilidae: the Self Adhesion of Chromatin Containing the Same DNA Sequences

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Journal Chromosoma

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 1975 Sep 15

PMID 1175457

Citations 15

Authors

J E Mayfield

J R Ellison

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Abstract

Cytological evidence is presented which shows that for Drosophila virilis and Samoaia leonensis at least, each satellite DNA is condensed into a distinct heterochromatic mass during interphase. This is seen as just one example of a general phenomenon in which chromatin containing a particular DNA sequence binds to other chromatin containing the same sequence. It is proposed that DNA sequence specific proteins can account for this phenomenon.

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