Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

H2A.Z controls the stability and mobility of nucleosomes to regulate expression of the LH genes

  • Sergei Rudnizky,
  • Adaiah Bavly,
  • Omri Malik,
  • Lilach Pnueli,
  • Philippa Melamed,
  • Ariel Kaplan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12958
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Chromatin architecture at promoters can influence gene transcription. Here, the authors use a biophysical approach to elucidate how DNA sequence and histone variant usage modulate the properties of nucleosomes at the promoters of two target genes.