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SUBMITTER: Chakravarthy S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1190287 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chakravarthy Srinivas S Gundimella Sampath Kumar Y SK Caron Cecile C Perche Pierre-Yves PY Pehrson John R JR Khochbin Saadi S Luger Karolin K
Molecular and cellular biology 20050901 17
macroH2A is an H2A variant with a highly unusual structural organization. It has a C-terminal domain connected to the N-terminal histone domain by a linker. Crystallographic and biochemical studies show that changes in the L1 loop in the histone fold region of macroH2A impact the structure and potentially the function of nucleosomes. The 1.6-A X-ray structure of the nonhistone region reveals an alpha/beta fold which has previously been found in a functionally diverse group of proteins. This regi ...[more]