HIST2H4A

HIST2H4A
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases HIST2H4A, FO108, H4, H4/n, H4F2, H4FN, HIST2H4, histone cluster 2, H4a
External IDs MGI: 2448420 HomoloGene: 134466 GeneCards: HIST2H4A
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

8370

326620

Ensembl

ENSG00000270882

ENSMUSG00000069266

UniProt

P62805

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003548

NM_178193

RefSeq (protein)

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 149.83 – 149.84 Mb Chr 13: 23.76 – 23.76 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST2H4A gene.[3][4][5][6]

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. This structure consists of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a nucleosome, an octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene is intronless and encodes a member of the histone H4 family. Transcripts from this gene lack polyA tails; instead, they contain a palindromic termination element. This gene is found in a histone cluster on chromosome 1. This gene is one of four histone genes in the cluster that are duplicated; this record represents the centromeric copy.[6]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Pauli U, Chrysogelos S, Stein G, Stein J, Nick H (Jul 1987). "Protein-DNA interactions in vivo upstream of a cell cycle-regulated human H4 histone gene". Science. 236 (4806): 1308–11. doi:10.1126/science.3035717. PMID 3035717.
  4. Sierra F, Stein G, Stein J (Dec 1983). "Structure and in vitro transcription of a human H4 histone gene". Nucleic Acids Res. 11 (20): 7069–86. doi:10.1093/nar/11.20.7069. PMC 326439Freely accessible. PMID 6314274.
  5. Braastad CD, Hovhannisyan H, van Wijnen AJ, Stein JL, Stein GS (Nov 2004). "Functional characterization of a human histone gene cluster duplication". Gene. 342 (1): 35–40. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2004.07.036. PMID 15527963.
  6. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: HIST2H4A histone cluster 2, H4a".

Further reading


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