Last Exit to Differentiation: Histone Variants as Signposts
Author(s) -
Nancy R. Hofmann
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.16.00445
Subject(s) - biology , histone , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , evolutionary biology , gene
After decades as wallflowers, histones have come into the limelight in recent years. Long overlooked as mainly structural proteins, the myriad posttranslational modifications of histones are now recognized as important epigenetic marks, and the existence of variant forms of histones H1, H2A, H2B,
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