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Mutations in Pdd1 reveal distinct requirements for its chromodomain and chromoshadow domain in directing histone methylation and heterochromatin elimination.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Feb 2014
Schwope Rachel M, Chalker Douglas L
Abstract excerpt
Pdd1, a specialized HP1-like protein, is required for genome-wide DNA rearrangements that restructure a previously silent germ line genome into an active somatic genome during macronuclear differentiation of Tetrahymena thermophila. We deleted or otherwise mutated conserved regions of the protein to investigate how its different domains promote the excision of thousands of internal eliminated sequences (IESs)....
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