H2AFB2
Histone H2A-Bbd type 2/3 also known as H2A Barr body-deficient is a histone protein that in humans is encoded by the H2AFB2 gene (H2A histone family, member B1).[3]
Function
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Nucleosomes consist of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene encodes a member of the histone H2A family. This gene is part of a region that is repeated three times on chromosome X, once in intron 22 of the F8 gene and twice closer to the Xq telomere. This record represents the middle copy.[3]
References
Further reading
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241
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- Chadwick BP, Willard HF (2001). "A Novel Chromatin Protein, Distantly Related to Histone H2a, Is Largely Excluded from the Inactive X Chromosome". J. Cell Biol. 152 (2): 375–84. doi:10.1083/jcb.152.2.375. PMC 2199617. PMID 11266453.
- Bao Y, Konesky K, Park YJ, et al. (2004). "Nucleosomes containing the histone variant H2A.Bbd organize only 118 base pairs of DNA". EMBO J. 23 (16): 3314–24. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600316. PMC 514500. PMID 15257289.
- Naylor JA, Buck D, Green P, et al. (1995). "Investigation of the factor VIII intron 22 repeated region (int22h) and the associated inversion junctions". Hum. Mol. Genet. 4 (7): 1217–24. doi:10.1093/hmg/4.7.1217. PMID 8528212.
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