Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
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MARs are AT rich heterochromatic regions which contains cis-acting sites that regulate transcription, 5’ introns, and a recognition site for topoisomerase II is usually present in the MAR.
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Presence of topoisomerase II binding sites shows high degree of negative supercoiling is usually present in the MAR.
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In interphase nuclei, this underlying proteinaceous structure changes its organization to occupy the entire nucleus; during interphase the structure is referred to as the matrix rather than the scaffold.
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S/MARs is a DNA sequence which binds to base structure called scaffold.