Structure of the Drosophila nucleosome core particle highlights evolutionary constraints on the H2A-H2B histone dimer.
Clapier, C.R., Chakravarthy, S., Petosa, C., Fernandez-Tornero, C., Luger, K., Muller, C.W.(2007) Proteins 71: 1-7
- PubMed: 17957772 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.21720
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2PYO - PubMed Abstract: 
We determined the 2.45 A crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle from Drosophila melanogaster and compared it to that of Xenopus laevis bound to the identical 147 base-pair DNA fragment derived from human alpha-satellite DNA. Differences between the two structures primarily reflect 16 amino acid substitutions between species, 15 of which are in histones H2A and H2B ...