Nucleosome acidic patch-targeting binuclear ruthenium compounds induce aberrant chromatin condensation
Davey, G.E., Adhireksan, Z., Ma, Z., Riedel, T., Sharma, D., Padavattan, S., Rhodes, D., Ludwig, A., Sandin, S., Murray, B.S., Dyson, P.J., Davey, C.A.(2017) Nat Commun 8: 1575-1575
- PubMed: 29146919 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01680-4
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5XF3, 5XF4, 5XF5, 5XF6 - PubMed Abstract: 
The 'acidic patch' is a highly electronegative cleft on the histone H2A-H2B dimer in the nucleosome. It is a fundamental motif for protein binding and chromatin dynamics, but the cellular impact of targeting this potentially therapeutic site with exogenous molecules remains unclear ...