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Novel E3 ubiquitin ligases that regulate histone protein levels in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Singh Rakesh Kumar, Gonzalez Melanie, Kabbaj Marie-Helene Miquel, Gunjan Akash
Abstract excerpt
Core histone proteins are essential for packaging the genomic DNA into chromatin in all eukaryotes. Since multiple genes encode these histone proteins, there is potential for generating more histones than what is required for chromatin assembly. The positively charged histones have a very high affinity for negatively charged molecules such as DNA, and any excess of histone proteins results in deleterious effects...
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