ECB-ART-35572
Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper
1980 Sep 15;5617:1778-84.
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Methylation of nuclear proteins during early embryogenesis in sea urchin.
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Isolated sea urchin embryos nuclei incubated in vitro in presence of the methyl donor, S-adenosylmethionine, methylated their own nuclear proteins, following a typical enzymatic reaction pattern. In fact, the methylation activity showed a linear increase in time of incubation and in nuclear proteins concentration. The Km app. was found to be the same in nuclei isolated either from blastula or from gastrula stage; moreover a second value of Km app. was also found at gastrula stage. Otherwise it has been demonstrated that the methylase activity is stage dependent, with a maximal value in nuclei isolated from blastula with primary mesenchyme and that in our conditions the only methylated nuclear proteins are the histones H3 and H4.
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Genes referenced: aplp1 LOC100887844