Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

INO80 exchanges H2A.Z for H2A by translocating on DNA proximal to histone dimers

  • Sandipan Brahma,
  • Maheshi I. Udugama,
  • Jongseong Kim,
  • Arjan Hada,
  • Saurabh K. Bhardwaj,
  • Solomon G. Hailu,
  • Tae-Hee Lee,
  • Blaine Bartholomew

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15616
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Chromatin remodellers usually mobilize or disassemble nucleosomes by translocating along the nucleosomal DNA at the H3-H4 interface. Here, the authors provide evidence chromatin remodeller INO80 translocates along DNA at the H2A-H2B interface and displaces DNA from the surface of H2A-H2B.