Heterochromatin: RNA points the way.

Curr Biol

Division of Biological Sciences, Tucker Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA.

Published: September 2004

Mutation of the multi-KH domain protein DPP1, which has single-stranded nucleic acid binding activity, suppresses heterochromatin-mediated silencing in Drosophila; it also disrupts the modification of histone H3 at lysine 9, and association of heterochromatin protein 1 on the heterochromatic regions, suggesting a role for DDP1 in heterochromatin formation.

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