Lsh, a guardian of heterochromatin at repeat elements - PubMed (original) (raw)

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doi: 10.1139/o05-119.

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Lsh, a guardian of heterochromatin at repeat elements

Kathrin Muegge. Biochem Cell Biol. 2005 Aug.

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Lymphoid-specific helicase (Lsh) is a crucial factor for normal embryonic development; targeted deletion of Lsh is lethal. Lsh belongs to a family of chromatin-remodeling proteins and is closely associated with pericentromeric heterochromatin. Lsh deficiency leads to abnormal heterochromatin organization, with a loss of DNA methylation, and an altered pattern of histone-tail acetylation and methylation. As a functional consequence of perturbed heterochromatin, aberrant reactivation of parasitic retroviral elements in the genome and abnormal mitosis with amplified centrosomes and genomic instability were observed. Thus, Lsh is a major epigenetic regulator crucial for normal heterochromatin structure and function.

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