Histone variants and transcription regulation.

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Histones are the protein components of chromatin and are important for its organization and compaction. Although core histones are exclusively expressed during S phase of the cell cycle, there exist variants of canonical histones that are expressed throughout the cell cycle. These histone variants are often deposited at defined regions of the genome and they play important roles in a variety of cellular...

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