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Changing chromatin from the inside

Two new biophysical analyses of the folding behavior of model oligonucleosomal arrays have provided interesting new insights into how a histone mutation that mimics a chromatin remodeling activity and the incorporation of a histone variant into chromatin alter chromatin structure and function.

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Figure 1: Location of SIN mutations and essential amino acids of H2A.Z within the core histone octamer.

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Hayes, J. Changing chromatin from the inside. Nat Struct Mol Biol 9, 161–163 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0302-161

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