Core component of nucleosome. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. DNA accessibility is regulated via a complex set of post-translational modifications of histones, also called histone code, and nucleosome remodeling.
"Histone H2B variants from the erythrocytes of an amphibian, a reptile and a bird."van Helden P., Strickland W.N., Brandt W.F., von Holt C.
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