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    Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2006 Apr;16(2):104-11. Epub 2006 Feb 28.

    Chromatin assembly: a basic recipe with various flavours.

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    Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics and Genome Plasticity, UMR 218 CNRS/Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris cedex 5, France.

    Abstract

    Packaging of eukaryotic genomes into chromatin is a hierarchical mechanism, starting with histone deposition onto DNA to produce nucleosome arrays, which then further fold and ultimately form functional domains. Recent studies provide interesting insight into how nucleosome assembly is coordinated with histone and DNA metabolism and underline the combined contribution of histone chaperones and chromatin remodelers. How these factors operate at a molecular level is a matter of current investigation. New data highlight the importance of histone dimers as deposition entities for de novo nucleosome assembly and identify dedicated machineries involved in histone variant deposition.

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    16504499
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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