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SUBMITTER: Ryan DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4162295 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ryan Daniel P DP Owen-Hughes Tom T
Current opinion in chemical biology 20110820 5
Chromatin facilitates the housing of eukaryotic DNA within the nucleus and restricts access to the underlying sequences. Thus, the regulation of chromatin structure provides an excellent platform for regulating processes that require information stored within genomic DNA. Snf2 proteins are a family of helicase-like proteins that direct energy derived from ATP hydrolysis into the mechanical remodelling of chromatin structure. Here, we highlight some of the recent discoveries regarding this family ...[more]