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SUBMITTER: Hartley PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2677553 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hartley Paul D PD Madhani Hiten D HD
Cell 20090501 3
The chromatin architecture of eukaryotic gene promoters is generally characterized by a nucleosome-free region (NFR) flanked by at least one H2A.Z variant nucleosome. Computational predictions of nucleosome positions based on thermodynamic properties of DNA-histone interactions have met with limited success. Here we show that the action of the essential RSC remodeling complex in S. cerevisiae helps explain the discrepancy between theory and experiment. In RSC-depleted cells, NFRs shrink such tha ...[more]