Chromatin remodeling factors and DNA replication.
Chromatin structures have to be precisely duplicated during DNA replication to maintain tissue-specific gene expression patterns and specialized domains, such as the centromeres. Chromatin remodeling factors are key components involved in this process and include histone chaperones, histone modifying enzymes and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes. Several of these factors interact directly with components of the replication machinery. Histone variants are also important to mark specific chromatin domains. Because chromatin remodeling factors render chromatin dynamic, they may also be involved in facilitating the DNA replication process through condensed chromatin domains.
Varga-Weisz
Patrick
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Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, UK. p.varga-weisz@mcri.ac.uk
D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002843:Chromatin / Q000378:metabolism*; D042002:Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000378:metabolism; D004261:DNA Replication; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000378:metabolism; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism
D002843:Chromatin; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D006657:Histones; C086468:ISWI protein; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009707:Nucleosomes; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases