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FACT and the reorganized nucleosome.
Molecular bioSystems - 1 Nov 2008
Formosa Tim
Abstract excerpt
FACT is an essential component of the machinery used by eukaryotic cells both to establish and to overcome the nucleosomal barrier to DNA accessibility, and it does so without hydrolyzing ATP. FACT is a transcription elongation factor, but this review stresses additional roles in DNA replication and initiation of transcription. The widely-held model that FACT functions by displacing an H2A-H2B dimer from a...
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