Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

NAP1-RELATED PROTEIN1 and 2 negatively regulate H2A.Z abundance in chromatin in Arabidopsis

  • Yafei Wang,
  • Zhenhui Zhong,
  • Yaxin Zhang,
  • Linhao Xu,
  • Suhua Feng,
  • Shima Rayatpisheh,
  • James A. Wohlschlegel,
  • Zonghua Wang,
  • Steven E. Jacobsen,
  • Israel Ausin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16691-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The histone variant H2A.Z is deposited by the SWR1 complex to replace H2A in Arabidopsis, but the mechanism of H2A.Z removal is unclear. Here, the authors show that NRP proteins can regulate gene expression by counteracting SWR1 and prevent excessive accumulation of H2A.Z.