When push comes to shove: SWI/SNF uses a nucleosome to get rid of a nucleosome

Ning Liu; Jeffrey J Hayes

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.05.005

When push comes to shove: SWI/SNF uses a nucleosome to get rid of a nucleosome

Mol Cell. 2010 May 28;38(4):484-6. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.05.005.

Authors

Ning Liu¹, Jeffrey J Hayes

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

Abstract

A report in this issue of Molecular Cell (Dechassa et al., 2010) provides evidence that a translocating SWI/SNF-nucleosome complex efficiently displaces neighboring nucleosomes in vitro and may account for SWI/SNF-dependent nucleosome eviction in vivo.

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Grants and funding

R01 GM052426/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States