Publication Date:
1996-10-25
Description:
Histone-DNA contacts within a nucleosome influence the function of trans-acting factors and the molecular machines required to activate the transcription process. The internal architecture of a positioned nucleosome has now been probed with the use of photoactivatable cross-linking reagents to determine the placement of histones along the DNA molecule. A model for the nucleosome is proposed in which the winged-helix domain of the linker histone is asymmetrically located inside the gyres of DNA that also wrap around the core histones. This domain extends the path of the protein superhelix to one side of the core particle.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pruss, D -- Bartholomew, B -- Persinger, J -- Hayes, J -- Arents, G -- Moudrianakis, E N -- Wolffe, A P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Oct 25;274(5287):614-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-2710, USA. awlme@helix.nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8849453" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Base Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Cross-Linking Reagents
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DNA/*chemistry/metabolism
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Histones/*chemistry/metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Nucleosomes/*chemistry
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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RNA, Ribosomal/genetics
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Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
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Xenopus
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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