HIST4H4

HIST4H4
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases HIST4H4, H4/p, histone cluster 4, H4
External IDs MGI: 2448432 HomoloGene: 134468 GeneCards: HIST4H4
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

121504

319158

Ensembl

ENSG00000197837

ENSMUSG00000060639

UniProt

P62805

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_175054

NM_175656

RefSeq (protein)

n/a

Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 14.77 – 14.77 Mb Chr 13: 22.04 – 22.04 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST4H4 gene.[3]

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Nucleosomes consist of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene is intronless and encodes a member of the histone H4 family. Transcripts from this gene lack polyA tails; instead, they contain a palindromic termination element.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Marzluff WF, Gongidi P, Woods KR, Jin J, Maltais LJ (Oct 2002). "The human and mouse replication-dependent histone genes". Genomics. 80 (5): 487–98. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(02)96850-3. PMID 12408966.
  4. "Entrez Gene: HIST4H4 histone cluster 4, H4".

Further reading


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