Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly (definition)

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Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly

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Definition: The mechanisms effecting establishment, maintenance, and modification of that specific physical conformation of CHROMATIN determining the transcriptional accessibility or inaccessibility of the DNA.

See Also Histone Code

Other names Remodeling, Chromatin; Disassembly, Chromatin; Chromatin Disassemblies; Chromatin Modeling; Chromatin Disassembly; Chromatin Assembly; Chromatin Remodeling

Substance	CAS Registry & name	Categories	Source
MYO1C protein, human	EC 3.6.1.4	*Myosin Type I Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly.	J Biol Chem 2002 Jun 14;277(24):21514-21
SMARCA5 protein, human	EC 3.6.1.-	Adenosine Triphosphatases Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly.	Cytogenet Cell Genet 1998;81(3-4):191-3

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