This domain appears to play a crucial role in chromatin remodelling for yeast SWI/SNF. It binds histones. It is required for mobilising nucleosomes and lies within the catalytic subunit of the yeast SWI/SNF. It is found to be universally conserved [1 ...
This domain appears to play a crucial role in chromatin remodelling for yeast SWI/SNF. It binds histones. It is required for mobilising nucleosomes and lies within the catalytic subunit of the yeast SWI/SNF. It is found to be universally conserved [1].
The Prosite family is restricted to DEAD/H helicases, whereas this domain family is found in a wide variety of helicases and helicase related proteins. It may be that this is not an autonomously folding unit, but an integral part of the helicase.
This domain is found in proteins involved in a variety of processes including transcription regulation (e.g., SNF2, STH1, brahma, MOT1), DNA repair (e.g., ERCC6, RAD16, RAD5), DNA recombination (e.g., RAD54), and chromatin unwinding (e.g., ISWI) as w ...
This domain is found in proteins involved in a variety of processes including transcription regulation (e.g., SNF2, STH1, brahma, MOT1), DNA repair (e.g., ERCC6, RAD16, RAD5), DNA recombination (e.g., RAD54), and chromatin unwinding (e.g., ISWI) as well as a variety of other proteins with little functional information (e.g., lodestar, ETL1)[1,2,3]. SNF2 functions as the ATPase component of the SNF2/SWI multisubunit complex, which utilises energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to disrupt histone-DNA interactions, resulting in the increased accessibility of DNA to transcription factors.
