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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 367-375Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80431-1
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Dosage compensation in Drosophila involves a P-fold increase in transcription from the single male X relative to the two female X chromosomes. Regulation at the level of the chromosome involves alterations in chromatin organization: male X chromosomes appear decondensed and are marked by acetylation of histone H4 at lysine 16. We demonstrate that MOF, a protein required for dosage compensation with significant sequence similarity to the MYST family of acetyltransferases, is a histone acetyltransferase that acetylates chromatin specifically at histone H4 lysine 16. This acetylation relieves chromatin-mediated repression of transcription in vitro and in vivo if MOF is targeted to a promoter by fusion to a DNA-binding domain. Acetylation of chromatin by MOF, therefore, appears to be causally involved in transcriptional activation during dosage compensation.
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