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. 1978 May;75(5):2239-43.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.5.2239.

Butyrate suppression of histone deacetylation leads to accumulation of multiacetylated forms of histones H3 and H4 and increased DNase I sensitivity of the associated DNA sequences

G Vidali, L C Boffa, E M Bradbury, V G Allfrey

Butyrate suppression of histone deacetylation leads to accumulation of multiacetylated forms of histones H3 and H4 and increased DNase I sensitivity of the associated DNA sequences

G Vidali et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1978 May.

Abstract

Exposure of HeLa cells to Na butyrate leads to an accumulation of multiacetylated forms of histones H3 and H4. Our studies of histone acetylation in HeLa S-3 cells show that 7 mM butyrate suppresses the deacetylation of histones without influencing the rate of radioactive acetate incorporation. An alteration in nucleosome structure in highly acetylated chromatin is indicated by an increased rate of DNA degradation by DNase I. A close association of acetylated histones with the DNase I-sensitive sequences is confirmed by the finding that histones remaining after limited DNase I digestion are depleted in the multiacetylated forms of histones H3 and H4. DNase I treatment has also been found to selectively release [3H]acetyl-labeled H3 and H4 from avian erythrocyte nuclei under conditions previously shown to preferentially degrade the globlin genes in erthyrocyte chromatin. Our results are consistent with the view that histone acetylation provides a key to the mechanism for altering chromatin structure at the nucleosomal level, and that this may explain the selective DNase I sensitivity of transcriptionally active DNA sequences in different cell types.

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