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J Mol Biol ; 434(7): 167497, 2022 04 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35189129

ABSTRACT

The artificial 601 DNA sequence is often used to constrain the position of nucleosomes on a DNA molecule in vitro. Although the ability of the 147 base pair sequence to precisely position a nucleosome in vitro is well documented, application of this property in vivo has been explored only in a few studies and yielded contradictory conclusions. Our goal in the present study was to test the ability of the 601 sequence to dictate nucleosome positioning in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the context of a long tandem repeat array inserted in a yeast chromosome. We engineered such arrays with three different repeat size, namely 167, 197 and 237 base pairs. Although our arrays are able to position nucleosomes in vitro, analysis of nucleosome occupancy in vivo revealed that nucleosomes are not preferentially positioned as expected on the 601-core sequence along the repeats and that the measured nucleosome repeat length does not correspond to the one expected by design. Altogether our results demonstrate that the rules defining nucleosome positions on this DNA sequence in vitro are not valid in vivo, at least in this chromosomal context, questioning the relevance of using the 601 sequence in vivo to achieve precise nucleosome positioning on designer synthetic DNA sequences.


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Nucleosomes , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Tandem Repeat Sequences , Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly , DNA, Fungal/genetics , DNA, Fungal/metabolism , Genetic Engineering , Nucleosomes/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism , Tandem Repeat Sequences/genetics
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