Colwill, R. W. & Sheinin, R. (1982) Novobiocin sensitivity and chromatin conformation in wild-type and temperature-sensitive mouse L cells. Can. J. Biochem. 60, 195-263 The ts A1S9 cell is a dmts mutant of mouse L cells which exhibits enhanced sensitivity to killing by the antibiotic novobiocin, as compared with the parental wild-type (WT-4) cell, another dna*' mouse L cell (ts Cl), and other mammalian cells. Such a response was not detected with other cytotoxic agents tested. Novobiocin inhibits DNA synthesis in ts AlS9 cells, at concentrations which have little or no effect on RNA or protein synthesis. Enhanced novobiocin sensitivity is not due to altered cellular permeability to the h g , since ts A1 S9 cells do not take up more antibiotic than do WT-4 or ts' aR mouse L cells. A ts' revertant of ts A1S9 cells exhibits a wild-type pattern of novobiocin sensitivity, suggesting that novobiocin resistance may be encoded in the ts AlS9 locus. These findings led to a study of DNA conformation which revealed that the nuclear, chromatin-bound DNA of temperature-inactivated ts A1 S9 cells sediments differently in ethidium bromide sucrose density gradients than does that of WT-4 cells grown at 38.5"C. These observations suggest that expression of the ts A 1 S9 defect results in a more highly constrained conformation of the DNA, relative to that in control cells, and that in this configuration the DNA may be unable to act as template for replication.Colwill, R. W. & Sheinin, R. (1982) Novobiscin sensitivity and chromatin conformation in wild-type and temperature-sensitive mouse L cells. Can. J. Biochem. 60, 195-203 La cellule ts A 1 S9 est mn dnats mutant des cellules L de soavis qui montre une sensibiliti accrue aux effets cytotoxiques d'un mtibiotique, la novobiocine, quand on la compare % celle de la cellule parent.de de type sauvage (WT-4)' celle d'une autre cellule L d d s de souris (ts C1) et h celle d'autres cellules mmaliennes. B'amtres agents cytotoxiques essayts ne donnent pas une telle rkponse. La novobiocine inhibe la synthkse de le DNA dans les cellules ts AlS9 des concentrations qui exercent peu ou pas d'effet sur la synthkse du RNA ou des proteines. La sensibilitt accrue h la novobiocine n'est pas causte par une alttration de la pm6abilitt cellulaire % l'tgwd de la drogue, car les cellules ts A1S9 n'incorporent pas plus d'antibiotique que ne le font les cellules WT-4 ou les cellules L ts* AR de souris. Un rtvertmt ts' des cellules ts AlS9 montre mne sensibilitt $ la novobiocine semblable B celle des cellules du type sauvage, ce qui sugg&re que la resistance la novobiocine puisse $tre codte dans le locus ts AlS9. Ces domtes ont conduit une ttude de la conformation du DNA; elle nous a rtvC1C que le DNA nucltaire, lie a la chromatine, des cellules ts A1S9 inactivtes par la temp$rature stdimente de fason diffkrente dans le bromure d'tthidium contenant des gradients de densitt de saccharose que ne le fait le DNA des cellules WT-4 croissant % 38,5"C. D'aprks ces observations, l'expression du dkfaut ts A1S9 rtsu...