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In a previous paper (Rake and Edwards, 1987) it was shown that the majority of the chromatin from trisomic mouse cells has nucleosomes with a smaller repeat length of DNA than the nucleosome repeat length of normal cells. Here it is shown that the RNA content of the total cell and of the nuclei is the same in all tissues studied, in both normal and trisomic cells. However, the amount per unit time or rate of RNA synthesis is depressed in the trisomic liver and brain nuclei. The depression of RNA synthesis could not be specified to the small trisomic section of the chromatin but instead must reflect the overall nuclear activity. These results, along with those of Devlinet al. (1988), indicate that the trisomic condition alters a substantial part of nuclear organization and activity, not just the small trisomic part.
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Rake, A.V., Patel, B. & De Leon, M. Effect of a partial trisomy in the mouse upon cellular and nuclear RNA. Biochem Genet 27, 403–416 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00020584
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