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Short Histone H2A Variants: Small in Stature but not in Function.
Cells - 2 Apr 2020
Jiang Xuanzhao, Soboleva Tatiana A, Tremethick David J
Abstract excerpt
The dynamic packaging of DNA into chromatin regulates all aspects of genome function by altering the accessibility of DNA and by providing docking pads to proteins that copy, repair and express the genome. Different epigenetic-based mechanisms have been described that alter the way DNA is organised into chromatin, but one fundamental mechanism alters the biochemical composition of a nucleosome by substituting one...
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