title: ACF takes the driver's seat.
abstract: ISWI family chromatin remodeling enzymes generate regularly spaced nucleosome arrays. In a recent Nature report, Hwang et al. (2014) describe how ACF gauges the length of linker DNA when deciding to accelerate nucleosome sliding or to put on the brakes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Butenandt Institute and LMU Biomedical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Butenandtstrasse 5, 81377 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Hari R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Butenandt Institute and LMU Biomedical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Butenandtstrasse 5, 81377 Munich, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM), 81377 Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), 80336 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.ladurner@med.lmu.de.
authors.forename: Andreas G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Ladurner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006657:Histones; D009707:Nucleosomes