@article{ScheerZentgrafSauer1981,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Sauer, Helmut W.},
  title     = {Different chromatin structures in Physarum polycephalum: a special form of transcriptionally active chromatin devoid of nucleosomal particles},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33148},
  year      = {1981},
  abstract  = {Nonnucleolar chromatin from interphase nuclei of Physarum polycephalum plasmodia occurs in two different structural configurations as seen in electron microscopic spread preparations. While the majority of the chromatin is devoid of nascent ribonucleoprotein (RNP) fibrils and compacted into nucleosomal particles, a minor proportion (10- 20\%) is organized differently and reveals a smooth contour. It is this form of smooth chromatin which is rich in transcription units (mean length: 1.36±0.21 11m). Only occasionally are solitary nascent RNP fibrils observed which are associated with beaded strands of chromatin. In transcribed smooth chromatin nucleosomal particles are not only absent from the transcription units but also from their nontranscribed flan king regions, indicating that this special structural aspect is not merely a direct consequence of the transcriptional process. The existence of ca. 10- 20\% of Physarum chromatin in the smoothly contoured form is discussed in relation to reports of a preferential digestibility of a similar proportion of Physarum chromatin by DNAse I (Jalouzot et al. , 1980) and to the altered configuration of "peak A" chromatin subunits after micrococcal nuclease digestion (Johnson et al., 1978a, b).},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{ScheerZentgraf1982,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Morphology of nucleolar chromatin in electron microscopic spread preparations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-41155},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {1982},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FrankeKartenbeckZentgrafetal.1971,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Kartenbeck, J{\"u}rgen and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Scheer, Ulrich and Falk, Heinz},
  title     = {Membrane-to-membrane cross-bridges. A means to orientation and interaction of membrane faces},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-32122},
  year      = {1971},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ZentgrafScheerFranke1975,
  author    = {Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Characterization and localization of the RNA synthesized in mature avian erythrocytes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-32410},
  year      = {1975},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{FrankeScheerSpringetal.1979,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich and Spring, Herbert and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Organization of nucleolar chromatin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-39410},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {1979},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FrankeZentgrafScheer1978,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Supranucleosomal and non-nucleosomal chromatin configurations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-39447},
  year      = {1978},
  abstract  = {A significant contribution to the understanding of chromatin organization was the d iscovery of the nucleosome as a globular repeating unit of the package of DNA (Hewish and Burgoyne, 1973; Woodcock, 1973; Kornberg, 1974; Olins and Olins, 1974; for review see Oudet et al., 1978 a) . In accord with the original definition and in ag reement with most workers in this field of research we identify a nucleosome as a spheric alor slightly oblate gr anular particle 10-13 nm in diameter, containing about 200 base pairs of DNA and two of each of the four his tones H2a, H2b, H3 and H4. It is this structure in which the bulk of the nuclear chroma tin is organized in most eukaryotic cells, with the exception of the dinofl age llates (Rae and Steele, 1977; dinofl agellate DNA, however, c an be packed into nucleosoma l structures in vitro by addition of the appropriate amounts of histones;the same reference). Although it seems clear from the work reported that condensed and transcriptiona lly inactive chroma tin is contained in nucleosomes as the principle for first order p acking of DNA there are two important questions onto which we are focusing in the present study: ( i ) What is the higher order of p a cking present in - and perhaps typical-of - the condensed sta te of chromatin, and (ii) what is the specific form of arrangement of transcriptionally a ctive chromatin?},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ZentgrafTrendelenburgSpringetal.1979,
  author    = {Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Spring, Herbert and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, Werner W. and M{\"u}ller, Ulrike and Drury, Kenneth C. and Rungger, Duri},
  title     = {Mitochondrial DNA arranged into chromatin-like structures after injection into amphibian oocyte nuclei},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33174},
  year      = {1979},
  abstract  = {Purified mitochondrial DNA (mitDNA) from ovaries ofXenopus lae vis was injected into the nuclei (germinal vesicles) of large viteUogenic oocytes of the same organism and examined by electron microscopy ofthe spread nuclear contents. Normally located nuclei of untreated oocytes as weil as peripherally translocated nuclei of centrifuged oocytes were used. In addition, oocyte nuclei isolated and incubated under liquid paraffin oil were injected with DNA. The integrity oftranscriptional structures of endogenous chromosomal (Iampbrush chromosomes) and extrachromosomal (nucleoli) genes of the injected nuclei was demonstrated. Microinjected mitDN A was identified as circles of chromatin exhibiting polynucleosome-like organization and a me an contour length of 2.6 J.Lm, corresponding to a compaction ratio of the mitDN A of about 2 : I. This DNA packing ratio is similar to that observed after preparation of various kinds of native chromatin in low salt buffers. The chromatin circles formed from injected mitDNA only very rarely exhibited lateral fibrils suggestive of transcriptional activity. These results suggest that purified mitDNA can be transformed to normally structured chromatin when exposed to oocyte nuclear contents but is rarely , if at all , transcribed in this form and in this environment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{ZentgrafScheerFranke1976,
  author    = {Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {On the existence of arrested transcriptional machinery in late stages of avian erythropoiesis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33696},
  year      = {1976},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{ScheerZentgraf1978,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Nucleosomal and supranucleosomal organization of transcriptionally inactive rDNA circles in Dytiscus oocytes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33188},
  year      = {1978},
  abstract  = {Oocytes of the water beetle, Dytiscus marginalis, contain large amounts of rDNA most of which is present in the form of rings containing one or several pre-rRNA genes. Electron microscopy of spread preparations of vitellogenic oocytes has shown that the rDNA is extended in chromatin rings with transcribed pre- rRNA genes and is not packed into nucleosomes (Trendelenburg eta!. , 1976). When similar preparations are made from previtellogenic ooytes in which a large proportion of the nuc1eolar chromatin is transcriptionally inactive, a different morphological form of this chromatin is recognized. In contrast to the transcribed chromatin rings the inactive nucleolar chromatin circles show the characteristic beaded configuration, indicative of nucleosomal packing. Nuc1eosomal packing is also indicated by the comparison of the lengths of these chromatin rings with both iso lated rDNA circ1es and transcribed chromatin rings. In addition, these inactive nuc1eofilaments often appear to be compacted into globular higher order structures of diameters from 21 to 34nm, each composed of an aggregate of 6-9 nuc1eosomes. While the estimated reduction of the overall length of rDNA, as seen in our preparations, is, on the average, only 2.2 - 2.4 fold in the nuc1eosomal state it is 10- 13 fold when supranuc1eosomal globules are present. These data show that the extrachromosomal rDNA of these oocytes goes through a cycle of condensation and extensio n, as a function of the specific transcriptional activity, and that the beaded state described here is exc1usively found in the non-transcribed state.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{TrendelenburgScheerZentgrafetal.1976,
  author    = {Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Heterogeneity of spacer lengths in circles of amplified ribosomal DNA of two insect species, Dytiscus marginalis and Acheta domesticus},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33055},
  year      = {1976},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FrankeZentgrafScheer1973,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Membrane linkages at the nuclear envelope},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40596},
  year      = {1973},
  abstract  = {Electron-opaque material is shown in the perinuclear cisternae of various cell types to connect the inner and outer nuclear membrane faces. Similar bridges were observed between the outer nuclear membrane and the outer mitochondrial membrane. The intracisternal bridges of the nuclear envelope appear to be important for the structural stability of the perinuclear cisterna. Stable structural linkage of mitochondria to the outer nuclear membrane might be relevant to the understanding of the characteristic juxtanuclear accumulation of mitochondria and also provide arguments for the discussions of certain biochemical activities found in nuclear and nuclear membrane fractions.},
  subject      = {Cytologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FrankeScheerZentgraf1984,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Organization of transcriptionally active and inactive chromatin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40588},
  year      = {1984},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  subject      = {Deutschland},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{FrankeScheerZentgrafetal.1980,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and M{\"u}ller, U. and Krohne, G. and Spring, H.},
  title     = {Organization of transcribed and nontranscribed chromatin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40656},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {1980},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  subject      = {Tumor / Zellteilung},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FrankeScheerTrendelenburgetal.1976,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Spring, Herbert and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Absence of nucleosomes in transcriptionally active chromatin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40646},
  year      = {1976},
  abstract  = {The ultrastructure of twO kinds of transcription ally active chromatin, the lampbrush chromosome loops and the nucleoli from amphibian oocytes and primary nuclei of the green alga Acetabularia, has been examined after manual isolation and dispersion in low salt media of slightly alkaline pH using various electron microscopic staining techniques (positive staining, metal shadowing, negative staining, preparation on positively charged films, etc.) and compared with the appearance of chromatin from various somatic cells (hen erythrocytes, rat hepatocytes, ClIltured murine sarcoma cells) prepared in parallel. While typical nucleosomes were revealed with all the techniques for chromatin from the latter three cell system, no nucleosomes were identified in either the lampbrush chromosome structures or the nucleolar chromatin. Nucleosomal arrays were absent not only in maximally fibril-covered matrix units but also in fibril-free regions between transcriptional complexes, including the apparent spacer intercepts between different transcriptional units. Moreover, comparisons of the length of the repeating units of rDNA in the transcribed state with those determined in the isolated rDNA and with the lengths of the first stable product of rDNA transcription, the pre-rRNA, demonstrated that the transcribed rDNA was not significantly shortened and/or condensed but rather extended in the transcriptional units. Distinct granules of about nucleosomal size which were sometimes found in apparent spacer regions as well as within matrix units of reduced fibril density were shown not to represent nucleosomes since their number per spacer unit was not inversely correlated with the length of the specific unit and also on the basis of their resistance to treatment with the detergent Sarkosyl NL-30. It is possible to structurally distinguish between transcriptionally active chromatin in which the DNA is extended in a non-nucleosomal form of chromatin and condensed, inactive chromatin within the typical nucleosomal package. The characteristic extended structure of transcriptionally active chromatin is found not only in the transcribed genes but also in non-transcribed regions within or between ("spacer") transcriptional units as well as in transcriptional units that are untranscribed amidst transcribed ones and/or have been inactivated for relatively short time. It is hypothesized that activation of transcription involves a transition from a nucleosomal to an extended chromatin organisation and that this structural transition is not specific for single "activated" genes but may involve larger chromatin regions, including adjacent untranscribed intercepts.},
  subject      = {Cytologie},
  language  = {en}
}