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Frontiers in Biology

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Front Biol    2011, Vol. 6 Issue (2) : 93-101    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-011-1127-5
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Histone variants: making structurally and functionally divergent nucleosomes and linkers in chromatin
Leilei SHI, Yuda FANG()
National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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Abstract

In addition to the post-translational modifications of histone proteins, emerging literature suggests that the mosaic nucleosomes formed by incorporation of various histone variants provide another mechanism for modifying chromatin structure and function. The locally defined chromatin by histone variants is involved in transcriptional regulation, DNA repair, centromere packaging, maintenance of pericentromeric heterochromatin, stress responses, temperature sensing, development, and many other biological processes. Here, we review the universal histone variants in H2A, H3 and H1 families and their roles in epigenetics.

Keywords H2AX      H2AZ      H3.3      CenH3      H1     
Corresponding Author(s): FANG Yuda,Email:yfang@sippe.ac.cn   
Issue Date: 01 April 2011
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Yuda FANG,Leilei SHI. Histone variants: making structurally and functionally divergent nucleosomes and linkers in chromatin[J]. Front Biol, 2011, 6(2): 93-101.
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