Javaherian K, Liu J F, Wang J C
Science. 1978 Mar 24;199(4335):1345-6. doi: 10.1126/science.628842.
Two chromatin nonhistone proteins (from calf thymus) of the high mobility group, HMG1 and HMG2, reduce the linking number (topological winding number) of a circular DNA if the covalent closure of the DNA is carried out in their presence. This indicates that these proteins can either unwind the double helix, or induce a supercoiling of the DNA.
两种来自小牛胸腺的高迁移率族染色质非组蛋白HMG1和HMG2,如果在其存在的情况下进行DNA的共价封闭,则会降低环状DNA的连环数(拓扑缠绕数)。这表明这些蛋白质要么能解开双螺旋,要么能诱导DNA超螺旋。