Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Acta Naturae. 2010 Oct;2(4):52-7.
The results of quantitative PCR (qPCR) presented in the paper clearly demonstrate that the sixteen-fold genome reduction inCyclops kolensisduring chromatin diminution (from 15.3 pg to 0.98 pg) results in a dramatic decrease in ribosomal RNA gene copy numbers in the genome of a somatic cell line by more than two orders of magnitude. The results presented allow for the consideration of the chromatin diminution as a mechanism of rDNA copy number regulation.
本文中的定量 PCR(qPCR)结果清楚地表明,在染色质缩减过程中(从 15.3pg 降至 0.98pg),Cyclops kolensis 的基因组减少了 16 倍,导致体细胞系基因组中的核糖体 RNA 基因拷贝数减少了两个以上数量级。本文所呈现的结果使得染色质缩减可以被视为 rDNA 拷贝数调控的一种机制。