Communications Biology (Feb 2022)

H3K27ac nucleosomes facilitate HMGN localization at regulatory sites to modulate chromatin binding of transcription factors

  • Shaofei Zhang,
  • Yuri Postnikov,
  • Alexei Lobanov,
  • Takashi Furusawa,
  • Tao Deng,
  • Michael Bustin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03099-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The nucleosome-binding proteins HMGN1 and HMGN2 prefer acetylated nucleosomes at H3K27ac and the loss of this interaction alters binding of transcription factors to chromatin.