HIST1H2AB

H2AC4
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesH2AC4, H2A/m, H2AFM, histone cluster 1, H2ab, histone cluster 1 H2A family member b, HIST1H2AB, H2A clustered histone 4, H2AC8
External IDsOMIM: 602795; MGI: 2448293; HomoloGene: 135982; GeneCards: H2AC4; OMA:H2AC4 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

8335

319167

Ensembl

ENSG00000278463

ENSMUSG00000069301

UniProt

P04908

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003513

NM_178186

RefSeq (protein)

NP_003504

Location (UCSC)Chr 6: 26.03 – 26.03 MbChr 13: 22.23 – 22.23 Mb
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Histone H2A type 1-B/E is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H2AB gene.

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. This structure consists of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a nucleosome, an 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 H2A family. Transcripts from this gene lack polyA tails; instead, they contain a palindromic termination element. This gene is found in the large histone gene cluster on chromosome 6p22-p21.3.