Stability of the maize chromosomal high-mobility-group proteins, HMGa and HMGb, in vivo
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- DOI: 10.1007/BF00043885
Stability of the maize chromosomal high-mobility-group proteins, HMGa and HMGb, in vivo
Abstract
Chromosomal non-histone high-mobility-group (HMG) proteins represent essential components of eukaryotic chromatin and have also been isolated from a variety of plants. In maize, studies on structure and function of the two larger of the four major HMG proteins have recently been performed and are now extended by analysis of their in vivo stability using pulse-chase experiments in a cell suspension culture. The half-life of the analyzed HMGa and HMGb proteins was found to be 65 h or more than 78 h, respectively.