The mechanism of nucleosome traversal by RNA polymerase II
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Histone Sin mutations promote nucleosome traversal and histone displacement by RNA polymerase II.
Nucleosome traversal by RNA polymerase II (pol II) and recovery of chromatin structure after transcription are essential for proper gene expression. In this paper we show that nucleosomes assembled with Sin mutant histones present a much weaker barrier to traversal by pol II and are less likely to survive transcription. Increases in traversal from incorporation of Sin mutant histones and histon...
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عنوان ژورنال: RNA Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1547-6286,1555-8584
DOI: 10.4161/rna.8.4.15389