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T Koller

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The ade6 gene of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe has the same chromatin structure in the chromosome and in plasmids.

We have analysed the chromatin structure of the ade6 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and its flanking regions both in the chromosome and in plasmids. The chromatin structure is independent of the chromosomal or extrachromosomal location. The ade6 gene contains eight precisely positioned nucleosomes on the 5' half, 'not positioned' nucleosomes around the 3' end and a nuclease-sensitive promoter region. Precisely positioned nucleosomes, but no nuclease-sensitive region were also detected on the ura4 gene in the chromosome and on a plasmid. The results show that S. pombe chromosomal and extrachromosomal genes have chromatin structures similar to those of S. cerevisiae and higher eukaryotes.

Chromatin↗

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Determination of the absolute handedness of knots and catenanes of DNA.

DNA winds about itself in a right-handed or left-handed fashion at several structural levels. The double helix is generally right-handed and is given a (+) sign by convention, whereas supercoiling of the helix axis is always (-) in the cell. The winding in higher -order forms such as knots and catenanes is unknown, and this has impeded elucidation of the mechanisms of their formation and resolution by replication, recombination and topoisomerase action. We introduce here a procedure for determining the handedness of DNA winding by inspection of electron micrographs of DNA molecules coated with Escherichia coli RecA protein. We demonstrate the validity of the method and show that DNA topoisomerase I of E. coli generates an equal mixture of (+) and (-) duplex DNA knots, and that one product of recombination by resolvase of transposon Tn3 (refs 8, 9) is a catenane of uniquely (+) sign.

Bacterial Proteins↗

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Personal pollen exposure compared to stationary measurements.

The aim of this study was to examine to what extent stationary outdoor pollen measurements are representative for estimating personal exposure to pollen. Ten subjects were studied during a total of 36 days in spring and summer Pollen was sampled using personal SKC total dust samplers and stationary Burkard pollen traps. The personal activity pattern was recorded quarter-hourly as well as the time spent outdoors. As a reference, SKC and Burkard samplers were run stationary and in parallel. Stationary comparison of the samplers showed good correlation (r = 0.981, p <0.001). However, the SKC sampler collected systematically about four times less pollen than the Burkard sampler. Taking into account the systematic difference between the sampling devices, the personal exposure data were about 30% of the stationary pollen concentrations with significant correlation (log-transformed data, r = 0.719, p <0.0001). Considering the average time the subjects spent outdoors (14% of sampling time), the indoor-outdoor ratio for pollen was 0.2. In conclusion, pollen reports are reliable for estimating personal exposure over a limited time period although personal pollen exposure is much lower.

Air Pollution↗