The Histones

Histones

JAUNDICE DURING PREGNANCY. By Urs Peter Haemmerli. New York, Springer-Verlag, Inc., 1967. 111 pp. $3.80, paperbound. Jaundice During Pregnancy is an excellent monograph which should be read by all internists, obstetricians, and pediatricians, and which should be available in all medical libraries for ready reference. The author concisely summarizes the known minor alterations of the liver and i...

Exploiting Histones

Book Review charged amino acids which appear to follow the path Exploiting Histones of the DNA helix. These interactions and the preferred direction of DNA bending by specific sequences (Chap-Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression. ter 2) undoubtedly contribute to nucleosome positioning Edited by Sarah C. R. Elgin. in some manner. Chapter 1 also makes it clear that New York: IRL Press. (1995)....

The Secret Life of Histones

Recent evidence reveals an unexpected role for the linker histone H1.2 in DNA damage-induced apoptosis. DNA double strand breaks induce translocation of nuclear H1.2 to the cytoplasm, where it promotes release of cytochrome c from mitochondria by activating the Bcl-2 family protein, Bak.

Chromatography of histones.

Histones in crenarchaea.

Archaeal histone-encoding genes have been identified in marine Crenarchaea. The protein encoded by a representative of these genes, synthesized in vitro and expressed in Escherichia coli, binds DNA and forms complexes with properties typical of an archaeal histone. The discovery of histones in Crenarchaea supports the argument that histones evolved before the divergence of Archaea and Eukarya.