UniProt Summary: 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 (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}.
Pfam DomainsGO Terms
Pfam Domains
Histone
GO Terms
nucleosome
nucleosome assembly
chromatin assembly
chromatin assembly or disassembly
nucleosome organization
DNA packaging
protein-DNA complex assembly
protein-DNA complex subunit organization
DNA conformation change
protein heterodimerization activity
chromatin organization
molecular function
cellular protein-containing complex assembly
chromosome organization
DNA binding
protein-containing complex assembly
protein-containing complex subunit organization
CRISPR Data
Compound HitMost Correlated Genes in ChemogenomicsTissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)