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Chromatin accessibility complex 1
Introduction
Chromatin accessibility complex 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRAC1 gene. [1]
Function
Function
CHRAC1 is a histone-fold protein that interacts with other histone-fold proteins to bind DNA in a sequence-independent manner. These histone-fold protein dimers combine within larger enzymatic complexes for DNA transcription, replication, and packaging.
Further reading
Further reading
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.