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Fusion of terminally differentiated chick erythrocytes (CE) with replicating quail myoblasts or established L6J1 rat myoblasts results in reactivation of DNA synthesis in the dormant CE nuclei and in suppression of DNA synthesis in the myoblast nuclei. The nuclei of primary quail myoblasts are more effectively inhibited than the nuclei of established rat myoblasts. Inhibition of DNA replication occurs not only by preventing G1 nuclei from entering S-phase but also by blocking nuclei in S-phase and by delaying nuclei in G2 from undergoing mitosis and starting a new DNA replication cycle. No inhibition of DNA synthesis could be observed when mouse erythrocytes, i.e., erythrocytes lacking nuclei, were fused with rat myoblasts to generate mouse-globin-containing L6J1 cybrids. — Reactivation of CE nuclei is associated with a loss of the tissuespecific H5 histone variant. Complete elimination of H5 histone, however, does not seem to be a necessary prerequisite for the initiation or completion of DNA replication in CE nuclei since H5 antigens are found on reactivated G1, S, and G2 nuclei.
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Ringertz, N.R., Nyman, U. & Bergman, M. DNA replication and H5 histone exchange during reactivation of chick erythrocyte nuclei in heterokaryons. Chromosoma 91, 391–396 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291013
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