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Genome-wide identification, evolutionary, and expression analyses of histone H3 variants in plants.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2015
Cui Jinteng, Zhang Zhanlu, Shao Yang, Zhang Kezhong, Leng Pingsheng, Liang Zhe
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Histone variants alter the nucleosome structure and play important roles in chromosome segregation, transcription, DNA repair, and sperm compaction. Histone H3 is encoded by many genes in most eukaryotic species and is the histone that contains the largest variety of posttranslational modifications. Compared with the metazoan H3 variants, little is known about the complex evolutionary history of H3 variants...
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