HISTONE-ENCODING GENES FROM PYROCOCCUS - EVIDENCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE HMF FAMILY OF ARCHAEAL HISTONES IN A NON-METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON

Authors
SANDMAN K PERLER FB REEVE JN
Citation
K. Sandman et al., HISTONE-ENCODING GENES FROM PYROCOCCUS - EVIDENCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE HMF FAMILY OF ARCHAEAL HISTONES IN A NON-METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON, Gene, 150(1), 1994, pp. 207-208
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Genetics & Heredity
Journal title
Gene → ACNP
ISSN journal
03781119
Volume
150
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
207 - 208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-1119(1994)150:1<207:HGFP-E>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Two genes, designated hpyA1 and hpyA2, have been cloned and sequenced from Pyrococcus strain GB-3a. They are predicted to encode proteins (H PyA1 and HPyA2, respectively) that are approx. 60% identical to the hi stones HMf and HMt, characterized from methanogenic Archaea. These arc haeal histones also contain the amino-acid sequences, conserved in euk aryotic H4 histones, that are thought to interact directly with DNA.