标题: Heterochromatin is late [打印本页] 作者: 杨柳 时间: 2009-3-6 08:53 标题: Heterochromatin is late
Into this flurry of activity came Lima-de-Faria (1959), who showed that heterochromatin replicated later than euchromatin. Heterochromatin was first identified as a darkly staining, condensed material whose significance was unclear. Lima-de-Faria injected tritium-labeled thymidine into grasshopper abdomens and then looked at developing spermatocytes. As the spermatocytes developed in a clear geographical sequence, replication events occurring at different times could be ordered. ! k" H+ J8 K" x5 Y; p, o1 s" b: I# J& r
"The evidence," wrote Lima-de-Faria, " clear. The tritium was incorporated into heterochromatin later than into euchromatin." Heterochromatin in rye leaves also replicated at a different time, and late replication of heterochromatin was confirmed in detail by Taylor (1960). : W+ p; C$ S% y) J+ w & L- O) K5 \5 \/ r& O: Z" M B% bThe biological importance of this finding "is an important issue," says Danesh Moazed (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA). "But over the years nothing has come of it." The late replication may help set up the heterochromatic state, but equally "it may be a side effect of the DNA being less accessible," says Moazed. ' Q9 y1 m; `" E! {1 z; m7 U ' ]4 I2 ^- y! aMiller and Nasmyth (1984) showed that passage through 9 h9 A. C2 n/ }5 A0 E* m: X5 ^; h) V m9 u7 L7 F- i+ Z* q) V( q
Only heterochromatin is labeled in this spermatocyte. 9 e( V0 i# l, h9 X" I1 ? D/ w9 M5 e" k8 s5 \& a5 L5 h& lLIMA-DE-FARIA0 O& p! v& k% m/ o7 B
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S phase was required for heterochromatin to be established in budding yeast. But Kirchmaier and Rine (2001) and Li and Gartenberg (2001), while confirming the need for an S-phase event, found that DNA replication was not required.: B8 Q5 j; }2 m2 r7 e
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Whatever the outcome, Lima-de-Faria's initial result remains unassailable. It also led others to consider DNA replication not as a simple, monolithic process, but as something that was complex and potentially regulated.5 P0 Q: {2 s3 p! l" p. ^$ X7 B
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