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Effects of Livagen Peptide on Chromatin Activation in Lymphocytes from Old People

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We studied the effects of the synthetic peptide Livagen on activity of ribosomal genes, denaturation parameters of heterochromatin, polymorphism of structural C-heterochromatin, and variability of facultative heterochromatin in lymphocytes from old people. Livagen induced activation of ribosomal genes, decondensation of pericentromeric structural heterochromatin, and release of genes repressed due to age-related condensation of euchromatic regions in chromosomes. Our results indicate that Livagen causes de-heterochromatinization (activation) of chromatin, which is realized via modification of heterochromatin and heterochromatinized regions in chromosomes from old people.

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  1. Northwestern Division of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, Russia

    V. Kh. Khavinson, T. A. Lezhava, J. G. Monaselidze, T. A. Dzhokhadze, N. A. Dvalishvili, N. K. Bablishvili & I. Yu. Ryadnova

  2. Department of Genetics, Tbilisi State University, Russia

    V. Kh. Khavinson, T. A. Lezhava, J. G. Monaselidze, T. A. Dzhokhadze, N. A. Dvalishvili, N. K. Bablishvili & I. Yu. Ryadnova

  3. Institute of Physics, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi

    V. Kh. Khavinson, T. A. Lezhava, J. G. Monaselidze, T. A. Dzhokhadze, N. A. Dvalishvili, N. K. Bablishvili & I. Yu. Ryadnova

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Khavinson, V.K., Lezhava, T.A., Monaselidze, J.G. et al. Effects of Livagen Peptide on Chromatin Activation in Lymphocytes from Old People. Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine 134, 389–392 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021924702103

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