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Heterochromatin: proteins in flux lead to stable repression
1Unit on Chromatin and Transcription, NICHD/NIH, Building 18T, Room 106, 18 Library Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Rohinton@helix.nih.gov
Current Biology : CB
|April 18, 2003
Abstract:
Heterochromatin is a phenotypically stable entity, but recent studies on the binding of HP1 protein in heterochromatin indicate that the individual components within these domains are not stably bound but in constant flux. These results force us to reexamine previous models of heterochromatin.