A matter of access: Nucleosome disassembly from gene promoters is the central goal of transcriptional activators

Zheng Hu; Kaifu Chen; Wei Li; Jessica K. Tyler

doi:10.4161/trns.29355

A matter of access: Nucleosome disassembly from gene promoters is the central goal of transcriptional activators

Zheng Hu, Kaifu Chen, Wei Li, Jessica K. Tyler

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Abstract

T he mechanism whereby transcriptional activators facilitate transcription activation has been debated. Our recent genome-wide profiling of gene expression during aging, where nucleosomes are depleted, indicates that the function of seemingly all transcriptional activators is to trigger nucleosome disassembly from promoters to allow the general transcription machinery access to the DNA.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e29355
Journal	Transcription
Volume	5
Issue number	JUN
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4161/trns.29355
State	Published - Jun 11 2014

Keywords

Aging
Histones
Nucleosomes
Transcription
Yeast

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Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Genetics

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