Using cytofluorimetry with acridine orange staining and a modified thermal denaturation technique of cellular DNP, it has been shown that chromatin melting profiles of normal human nuclei (from lymphocytes and granulocytes) have distinct regularities. It is believed that these regularities reflect specific supramolecular chromatin organization. Parallel comparative analysis performed using electrophoretic fractionation and isoelectric focussing of nuclear proteins has revealed that: 1) peculiarities of chromatin melting profiles are independent of the quantity and molecular weights of chromatin proteins; 2) the lack of principal differences in chromatin melting profiles and the data on isoelectric points of nuclear proteins of granulocytes and lymphocytes from the same patient indicate that specific supramolecular organization of DNP-complex depends on the chromatin protein charge.

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