Evidence that Spt6p controls chromatin structure by a direct interaction with histones

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5267, 1996, Pages 1473-1476

  Bortvin, Alex ^a   Winston, Fred ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029890667     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5267.1473     Document Type: Article

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47. We are especially grateful to G. Hartzog for providing the GST-Spt6 fusion; to M. A. Osley for providing the Δ16′ promoter; and to S. Brown, T. Imbalzano, and R. Kingston for the human histones and frog extracts. We also thank E. Elion for the gift of pSYB305; S. Roth for advice on far-western analysis; J. Workman for valuable discussions; and A. Dudley, G. Hartzog, and R. Kingston for critical reading of the manuscript. Supported by NIH grant GM32967.