Binding of Atf1 and Rst2 on the chromatin. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Binding of Atf1 and Rst2 on the chromatin.

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Transcription factors Atf1 and Rst2 help stabilize each other and bind to an opened segment of the chromatin structure. Their proximity, a mere 45 base pairs apart, is key to this effect, as demonstrated by the team’s experiments.

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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