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Fanconi proteins get histones moving
Author(s) -
Deans Andrew J
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2012.222
Subject(s) - biology , histone , genetics , non histone protein , computational biology , dna
New work reveals an unexpected role of the FANCD2 protein as a histone chaperone, which appears to be essential for this DNA interstrand crosslink repair function.