Non-fluorescently labeled nuclesomal DNA fragments were obtained as follows. pUC57 plasmids containing eight repeats of the high-affinity 147 bp Widom 603 sequence were amplified in
E. coli XL-10 stain and purified via alkaline lysis (see details in
Supplementary Materials and Methods). The Widom 603 fragments were released via cleavage with EcoRV and separated from parent plasmid with polyethylene glycol precipitation in order to clear the vector backbone as described in [86 ]. Nucleosomal DNA fragments fluorescently labeled at the 35 and 112 bp positions were obtained following established protocols [44 (
link),87 (
link),88 (
link)]. Briefly, DNA fragments (147 bp long) were amplified via PCR from the pUC57 plasmid containing the Widom 603 nucleosomal DNA sequence using the following primers:
Forward 5’-ATCAGTTCGCGCGCCCACCTACCGTGTGAAGTCG[Cy3-dT]CACTCGG-3’ (where Cy3-dT is a nucleotide labeled with Cy3);
Reverse 5’-ATCCCAGGGACTTGAAGTAATAAGGACGGAGGGCC[Cy5-dT]CTTTCAACATCGAT-3’ (where Cy5-dT is a nucleotide labeled with Cy5). A
Cleanup Standard kit (Evrogen, Moscow, Russia) was used to purify the amplified DNA fragments.
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