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Structure of a Sir2 substrate, Alba, reveals a mechanism for deacetylation-induced enhancement of DNA binding.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Jul 2003
Zhao Kehao, Chai Xiaomei, Marmorstein Ronen
Abstract excerpt
The targeted acetylation status of histones and several other transcriptional regulatory proteins plays an important role in gene expression, although the mechanism for this is not well understood. As a model to understand how targeted acetylation may effect transcription, we determined the x-ray crystal structure of the chromatin protein Alba from Archaeoglobus fulgidus, a substrate for the Sir2 protein that...
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