Nucleosome Dynamics As Studied by Single-pair Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer: a Reevaluation

Overview

Journal J Fluoresc

Specialties Biophysics
Chemistry

Date 2008 May 16

PMID 18481156

Citations 17

Authors

Miroslav Tomschik

Ken van Holde

Jordanka Zlatanova

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Abstract

Accessibility of nucleosomal DNA to protein factor binding is ensured by at least three mechanisms: post-synthetic modifications to the histones, chromatin remodeling, and spontaneous unwrapping of the DNA from the histone core. We have previously used single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer (spFRET) experiments to investigate long-range conformational fluctuations in nucleosomal DNA (Tomschik M, Zheng H, van Holde K, Zlatanova J, Leuba SH in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102(9):3278-3283, 2005). Recent work has drawn attention to a major artifact in such studies due to photoblinking of the acceptor fluorophore. We have now used formaldehyde-crosslinked nucleosomes and imaging in the presence of Trolox, an efficient triplet-state quencher that suppresses photoblinking, to reevaluate our previous conclusions. Careful analysis of the data indicates that most of the events previously characterized as nucleosome 'opening' must have corresponded to photoblinking. There is, nevertheless, evidence for the existence of infrequent, rapid opening events.

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