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By autoradiography with 3H-thymidine and 3H-deoxycytidine it is shown that chromosomes 1 and 16 in cultures of embryonic fibroblasts at the termination of the S period synthesise AT- and GC-rich DNA at different rats: in both chromosomes the labelling of AT-bases is more intensive. In leucocyte cultures both nucleotide pairs label equally in these chromosomes. Chromosomes 2, 3, 4–5 and 21–22 are labelled equally in both cultures with respect to AT-and GC-pairs. Fibroblasts and leucocytes differ in the relative intensity of DNA synthesis at the end of the S period: chromosomes 1,16 and 21–22 contain more label in the case of fibroblasts (chromosome 1 solely due to AT-pairs) and chromosome 4–5 in the case of leucocytes. Analysis of distribution of late label along chromosome 1 showed that in fibroblast cultures the pericentromeric regions of both arms are labelled more intensively in respect to both nucleotide pairs than in leucocyte cultures. Both in fibroblast and leucocyte cultures no significant distinctions in the distribution of AT-and GC-pairs along chromosome 2 were established. In fibroblast cultures the pericentromeric regions of both arms of chromosome 3 are labelled more intensively than other regions. In leucocyte cultures the pericentromeric region of the short arm of this chromosome is labelled with the same intensively as in fibroblasts, whereas in the pericentromeric region of the long arm the intensity of incorporation of labelled synthesis precursors decreases. — Analysis of results obtained in the present study together with data of previous studied (Slesinger et al., 1974; Lozovskaya et al., 1976; Lozovskaya et al., 1977) shows that differences between the two types of cells in the intensity of late 3H-thymidine labelling in the C-heterochromatin regions of chromosomes 1 and 16 may be explained both by variation of replication time in leucocytes as compared with fibroblasts and by variation of the content of AT- rich DNA. Differences observed in other chromosomes are probably due to different times of replication of these chromosomes in leucocytes and fibroblasts. — Thus, the process of cell system differentiation involves not only differential activity of the genome (the main mechanism) that is connected with differences in the replication time of chromosomes and of their regions but also variation of the quantity of genetic material.
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Lozovskaya, E.R., Slesinger, S.I. & Prokofieva-Belgovskaya, A.A. Comparative study of human chromosome replication in primary cultures of embryonic fibroblasts and in cultures of peripheral blood leucocytes. Chromosoma 64, 85–95 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00292890
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