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Establishment and maintenance of a heterochromatin domain.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 27 Sept 2002
Hall Ira M, Shankaranarayana Gurumurthy D, Noma Ken-Ichi, Ayoub Nabieh, Cohen Amikam, Grewal Shiv I S
Abstract excerpt
The higher-order assembly of chromatin imposes structural organization on the genetic information of eukaryotes and is thought to be largely determined by posttranslational modification of histone tails. Here, we study a 20-kilobase silent domain at the mating-type region of fission yeast as a model for heterochromatin formation. We find that, although histone H3 methylated at lysine 9 (H3 Lys9) directly recruits...
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