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Plasmids carrying fragments of a cytochrome P-450 gene, inducible by 3-methylcholanthrene, were used to study the chromatin structure of this gene in the liver of normal and carcinogen-treated rats. Digestion with micrococcal nuclease revealed that the gene is not present in the typical 200 base pair nucleosomal structure. By use of indirect end-label hybridization, four DNase I hypersensitive sites were mapped in the 5'-terminal region of the gene. An S1 nuclease sensitive site is located close to a DNase I site. Gene induction by treatment with 3-methylcholanthrene does not result in detectable changes in the DNase I hypersensitive sites. Rat thymus chromatin does not contain DNase I hypersensitive sites in the P-450 gene, suggesting that in the liver the chromatin structure is altered so as to allow tissue-specific expression of the gene. This paper is the first study on the chromatin structure of a gene coding for a member of the cytochrome P-450 family of enzymes. The implications of our results to the understanding of gene regulation of the P-450 genes are discussed.
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