Arabidopsis SWR1-associated protein methyl-CpG-binding domain 9 is required for histone H2A.Z deposition

Magdalena E Potok1, Yafei Wang2, Linhao Xu2

  • 1Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.

Nature Communications
|July 28, 2019
PubMed

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