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Evidence for a megareplicon covering megabases of centromeric chromosome segments

Chromosome Research, ISSN: 0967-3849, Vol: 4, Issue: 3, Page: 240-247
1996
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We have analysed the replication of the heterochromatic megachromosome that was formed de novo by a large scale amplification process initiated in the centromeric region of mouse chromosome 7. The megachromosome is organized into amplicons ~30 Mb in size, and each amplicon consists of two large inverted repeats delimited by a primary replication initiation site. Our results suggest that these segments represent a higher order replication unit (megareplicon) of the centromeric region of mouse chromosomes. Analysis of the replication of the megareplicons indicates that the pericentric. heterochromatin and the centromere of mouse chromosomes begin to replicate early, and that their replication continues through approximately three-quarters of the S-phase. We suggest that a replication-directed mechanism may account for the initiation of large-scale amplification in the centromeric regions of mouse chromosomes, and may also explain the formation of new, stable chromosome segments and chromosomes.

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