La fosforilación de la tirosina de la histona H2A por CK2 regula el alargamiento de la transcripción

Harihar Basnet1, Xue B Su2, Yuliang Tan3

  • 11] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA [2] Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.

Nature
|September 26, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos descubrieron un nuevo mecanismo regulador para el alargamiento de la transcripción génica que involucra a la caseína quinasa 2 (CK2) y la fosforilación de la histona H2A. Este hallazgo se conserva en todas las especies e impacta en los procesos celulares clave.

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