Rotational positioning of nucleosomes facilitates selective binding of p53 to response elements associated with cell cycle arrest

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The tumor suppressor protein p53 exhibits high affinity to the response elements regulating cell cycle arrest genes (CCA-sites), but relatively low affinity to the sites associated with apoptosis (Apo-sites). This in vivo tendency cannot be explained solely by the p53-DNA binding constants measured in vitro. Since p53 can bind nucleosomal DNA, we sought to understand if the two groups of p53 sites differ in their...

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