Eukaryotic cells chromosomes

In eukaryotic cells, chromosomal DNA exists probably in one or several linear units. 

The DNA in a eukaryotic cell nucleus during the interphase between cell divisions exists as a nucleoprotein complex called chromatin. The proteins of chromatin fall into two classes histones and nonhistone chromosomal proteins. 

Abstract. In eukaryotic cells, replicated DNA molecules remain physically connected from their synthesis in S phase until they are separated during anaphase. This phenomenon, called sister chromatid cohesion, is essential for the temporal separation of DNA replication and mitosis and for the equal separation of the duplicated genome. Recent work has identified a number of chromosomal proteins required for cohesion. In this review we discuss how these proteins may connect sister chromatids and how they are removed from chromosomes to allow sister chromatid separation at the onset of anaphase. 

Amon 1999). In most, but not all eukaryotic cells, unaligned or lagging chromosomes transmit a signal via the protein Mad2, which inhibits the APC and its activator protein Cdc20 and thereby prevents the proteolysis of both 13-type cyclins and securins. It is the block to securin destruction that prevents Sccl cleavage and thereby sister chromatid separation (Fig. 5) (Alexandru et al 1999). 

Nitro PAHs have been shown to exhibit a large variety of biological activities. Included in these are the induction of mutations in bacterial (Table I) and eukaryotic cells (9,17,54-57), the neoplastic transformation of cultured mammalian cells (58-59), and the induction of DNA strand breaks (60), DNA repair (61-62), sister chromatid exchanges (63-64), and chromosomal aberrations (65-66). Nitro PAHs have also been demonstrated to bind cellular DNA in bacteria (67-73) and mammalian cells (74-77), to inhibit preferentially the growth of repair-deficient bacteria (78), to have recombinogenic activity in yeast (66,79-80) and to induce tumors in experimental animals (Table II). 

Weeks et al. 1979) or DNA damage (Nakamura et al. 1987) following hexachloroethane treatment. Similar results were reported for eukaryotic cells. Hexachloroethane did not cause gene mutation in cells harvested from the stationary growth phase (Bronzetti et al. 1989) or DNA damage in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) (Simmon and Kauhanen 1978), chromosomal aberrations in fungi (Aspergillus nidulans) (Crebelli et al. 

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The genetic information of eukaryotic cells is propagated in the form of chromosomal DNA. Besides the nucleic acid component, chromosomes contain architectural proteins as stoichiometric components, which are involved in the protective compaction of the fragile DNA double strands. Together, the DNA and proteins form a nucleoprotein structure called chromatin. The fundamental repeating unit of chromatin is the nucleosome core particle. It consists of about 147 base pairs of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer of a (H3/H4)2 tetramer and two (H2A-H2B) heterodimers. One molecule of the linker histone HI (or H5) binds the linker DNA region between two nucleosome core particles (Bates and Thomas 1981). 

Endonuclease activation and chromatin fr mentation are characteristic features of eukaryotic cell death by apoptosis. Which of the following chromosome structures would most likely be degraded first in an apoptotic cell ... 

Each eukaryotic chromosome contains one linear molecule of DNA having multiple origins of replication. Bidirectional replication occurs by means of a pair of replication forks produced at each origin. Completion of the process results in the production of two identical linear molecules of DNA. DNA replication occurs in the nucleus during the S phase of the eukaryotic cell cycle. The two identical sister chromatids are separated om each other when the ceU divides during mitosis. 

Every eukaryotic cell has three parts a membrane with channels to let materials into and out of the cell, cytoplasm containing organelles and the cytosol, and a nucleus, containing the cell s chromosomes, or genetic material. The cytoplasm contains everything within the cell, except the nucleus. 

Hydroquinone induces alterations of the DNA in eukaryotic cells (micronuclei, chromosomal aberrations and disintegrations) but is nonmutagenic in Salmonella tester strains with or without metabolic activation/... 

Electron microscopy shows that DNA consists of either linear or circular structures. The chromosomal DNA in bacteria is a closed circle, a result of covalent joining of the two ends of the double helix (Figure 10.11). Note the presence of supercoils, branch points, intersections, and the generally thin and open structure. The chromosomal DNA in eukaryotic cells, like ours, is believed to be linear. 

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