• Biology, Medicine
• Published in
  Proceedings of the National…
  2004
• DOI:10.1073/pnas.0308092100

Histone H3.3 is enriched in covalent modifications associated with active chromatin.

@article{McKittrick2004HistoneHI,
  title={Histone H3.3 is enriched in covalent modifications associated with active chromatin.},
  author={Erin McKittrick and Philip R. Gafken and Kami Ahmad and Steven Henikoff},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
  year={2004},
  volume={101 6},
  pages={
          1525-30
        }
}

• Erin McKittrick, Philip R. Gafken, +1 author Steven Henikoff

Chromatin states can be distinguished by differential covalent modifications of histones or by utilization of histone variants. Chromatin associated with transcriptionally active loci becomes enriched for histones with particular lysine modifications and accumulates the H3.3 histone variant, the substrate for replication-independent nucleosome assembly. However, studies of modifications at particular loci have not distinguished between histone variants, so the relationship among modifications… CONTINUE READING

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