Nucleosome assembly: The CAF and the HAT

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Kaufman, PD [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT MOLEC & CELL BIOL,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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10.1016/S0955-0674(96)80012-3
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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Recent data argue strongly that a protein complex termed chromatin assembly factor-I (CAF-I) plays a major role in de novo nucleosome assembly during DNA replication. Human CAF-I deposits newly synthesized, acetylated histones onto replicated DNA in vitro and localizes to sites of DNA replication in S-phase cells. Specific lysines of the histones used for nucleosome assembly are acetylated; in the past year the first gene encoding a histone acetyltransferase was cloned. However, mechanistic links between histone acetylation and nucleosome assembly have not been established in vivo or in vitro.
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