Salt extracts prepared from purified micronuclei and the cytoplasm of growing Tetrahymena contain a histone acetylase (also referred to as histone acetyltransferase) activity which is highly specific ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract PR-Set7 is a histone methyltransferase that specifically monomethylates histone H4 lysine 20 (K20) and is essential for cell proliferation.

The biology of histone proteins encompasses their synthesis in the cytosol, nuclear import and incorporation into nucleosomes, as well as subsequent eviction from chromatin, redeposition, storage or ...