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SUBMITTER: Kadosh D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC109097 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular and cellular biology 19980901 9
Eukaryotic organisms contain a multiprotein complex that includes Rpd3 histone deacetylase and the Sin3 corepressor. The Sin3-Rpd3 complex is recruited to promoters by specific DNA-binding proteins, whereupon it represses transcription. By directly analyzing the chromatin structure of a repressed promoter in yeast cells, we demonstrate that transcriptional repression is associated with localized histone deacetylation. Specifically, we observe decreased acetylation of histones H3 and H4 (preferen ...[more]