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Front Biol    2011, Vol. 6 Issue (2) : 88-92    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-011-1040-y
REVIEW
Split decision: why it matters?
Hui WU1,2, Bing ZHU2()
1. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China; 2. National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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Abstract

The establishment and faithful maintenance of epigenetic information in the context of chromatin are crucial for a great number of biologic phenomena, including position effect variegation, Polycomb silencing, X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting. However, mechanisms by which that the correct histone modification patterns propagate into daughter cells during mitotic divisions remain to be elucidated. The partitioning pattern of parental histone H3-H4 tetramers is a critical question toward our understanding of the epigenetic inheritance. In this review, we discuss why the histone H3-H4 tetramer split decision matters.
Keywords histone      nucleosome      epigenetic inheritance     
Corresponding Author(s): ZHU Bing,Email:zhubing@nibs.ac.cn   
Issue Date: 01 April 2011
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Hui WU,Bing ZHU. Split decision: why it matters?[J]. Front Biol, 2011, 6(2): 88-92.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fib/EN/10.1007/s11515-011-1040-y
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fib/EN/Y2011/V6/I2/88
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