Biochemical and immunological characterization of two distinct variants of histone H2A in Friend leukemia
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Biochemical and immunological characterization of two distinct variants of histone H2A in Friend leukemia
Abstract
Changes in the relative amount of two histone H2A subfractions have been observed in cells at different proliferative stages of Friend leukemia. Biochemical analyses of the purified H2A subfractions reveal them to be different in primary structure, and not the result of postsynthetic modifications of the same parent protein. Antibodies raised against the purified H2A.2 subfraction cross react with H2A.1 and H2A.2, but show high specificity for the immunizing subfraction at higher sera dilutions. Only H2A.2 contains a methionine which appears critical to an antigenic difference that immunologically distinguishes H2A.2 from H2A.1. The observed change in the relative amounts of two nonallelic variants of a histone coincident with changes in the physiologic states of the cell may indicate a correlation between genome structure and function.
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