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Fission yeast CENP-B homologs nucleate centromeric heterochromatin by promoting heterochromatin-specific histone tail modifications.
Genes & development - 15 Jul 2002
Nakagawa Hiromi, Lee Joon-Kyu, Hurwitz Jerard, Allshire Robin C, Nakayama Jun-Ichi, Grewal Shiv I S, Tanaka Katsunori, Murakami Yota
Abstract excerpt
Heterochromatin is a functionally important chromosomal component, especially at centromeres. In fission yeast, conserved heterochromatin-specific modifications of the histone H3 tail, involving deacetylation of Lys 9 and Lys 14 and subsequent methylation of Lys 9, promote the recruitment of a heterochromatin protein, Swi6, a homolog of the Drosophila heterochromatin protein 1. However, the primary determinants...
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