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Comparative Study
. 1989 Jun;11(3):153-8.
doi: 10.1016/0141-8130(89)90060-3.

Structural differences between histone H1 molecules from sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus intermedius) sperm and calf thymus: hydrodynamic and c.d. studies

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Comparative Study

Structural differences between histone H1 molecules from sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus intermedius) sperm and calf thymus: hydrodynamic and c.d. studies

H Triebel et al. Int J Biol Macromol. 1989 Jun.

Abstract

Comparative sedimentation, diffusion and circular dichroism (c.d.) measurements have been performed on two histones H1 from sperm of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius (H1S) and from calf thymus (H1T), at a high salt concentration of M NaCl. Both the Stokes radius and the frictional ratio derived from the hydrodynamic parameters were found to be somewhat smaller for H1S than the corresponding values for H1T. In view of the considerably higher molar mass of H1S compared with that of H1T, this result indicates that H+S in 2 M NaCl has a more compact conformation than H1T, probably due to a higher degree of secondary structure in the flanking domains of H1S. The c.d. measurements likewise show that H1S has a higher content of ordered structures than H1T. Model considerations indicate that the C-terminal tail of H1S is the main candidate for accommodation of these additional secondary structure regions.

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