Histone H4 Lysine 16 Acetylation Breaks the Genome's Silence

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2006 May 13

PMID 16689998

Citations 26

Authors

Wei-Jong Shia

Samantha G Pattenden

Jerry L Workman

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Abstract

Acetylation at histone H4 lysine 16 is involved in many cellular processes in organisms as diverse as yeast and humans. A recent biochemical study pinpoints this particular acetylation mark as a switch for changing chromatin from a repressive to a transcriptionally active state.

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