HIST3H2A

H2AW
Identifiers
Aliases	H2AW, histone cluster 3 H2A, HIST3H2A, H2A.W histone
External IDs	OMIM: 615015; MGI: 2448458; HomoloGene: 137357; GeneCards: H2AW; OMA:H2AW - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 1 (human) Band 1q42.13 Start 228,434,777 bp End 228,457,873 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 11 (mouse) Band 11|11 B1.3 Start 58,845,511 bp End 58,847,656 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in cerebellar hemisphere right hemisphere of cerebellum testicle ganglionic eminence left adrenal cortex apex of heart right adrenal gland right adrenal cortex gonad ventricular zone Top expressed in spermatocyte retinal pigment epithelium neural layer of retina medial ganglionic eminence lens epithelium of lens external carotid artery ciliary body olfactory bulb trigeminal ganglion More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function DNA binding protein heterodimerization activity protein binding Cellular component nucleosome extracellular exosome nucleus chromosome Biological process nucleosome disassembly UV-damage excision repair chromatin organization Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 92815 319162 Ensembl ENSG00000181218 ENSG00000284841 ENSMUSG00000078851 UniProt Q7L7L0 Q8BFU2 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_033445 NM_178218 RefSeq (protein) NP_254280 NP_835736 Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 228.43 – 228.46 Mb Chr 11: 58.85 – 58.85 Mb PubMed search
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Histone H2A type 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST3H2A gene.

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Nucleosomes consist of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone 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 contain a palindromic termination element.

Further reading

• El Kharroubi A, Piras G, Zensen R, Martin MA (1998). "Transcriptional Activation of the Integrated Chromatin-Associated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Promoter". Mol. Cell. Biol. 18 (5): 2535–44. doi:10.1128/mcb.18.5.2535. PMC 110633. PMID 9566873.
• Deng L, de la Fuente C, Fu P, et al. (2001). "Acetylation of HIV-1 Tat by CBP/P300 increases transcription of integrated HIV-1 genome and enhances binding to core histones". Virology. 277 (2): 278–95. doi:10.1006/viro.2000.0593. PMID 11080476.
• Deng L, Wang D, de la Fuente C, et al. (2001). "Enhancement of the p300 HAT activity by HIV-1 Tat on chromatin DNA". Virology. 289 (2): 312–26. doi:10.1006/viro.2001.1129. PMID 11689053.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Lusic M, Marcello A, Cereseto A, Giacca M (2004). "Regulation of HIV-1 gene expression by histone acetylation and factor recruitment at the LTR promoter". EMBO J. 22 (24): 6550–61. doi:10.1093/emboj/cdg631. PMC 291826. PMID 14657027.
• Zhang Y, Griffin K, Mondal N, Parvin JD (2004). "Phosphorylation of histone H2A inhibits transcription on chromatin templates". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (21): 21866–72. doi:10.1074/jbc.M400099200. PMID 15010469.
• Aihara H, Nakagawa T, Yasui K, et al. (2004). "Nucleosomal histone kinase-1 phosphorylates H2A Thr 119 during mitosis in the early Drosophila embryo". Genes Dev. 18 (8): 877–88. doi:10.1101/gad.1184604. PMC 395847. PMID 15078818.
• Wang H, Wang L, Erdjument-Bromage H, et al. (2004). "Role of histone H2A ubiquitination in Polycomb silencing". Nature. 431 (7010): 873–8. doi:10.1038/nature02985. PMID 15386022. S2CID 4344378.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Hagiwara T, Hidaka Y, Yamada M (2005). "Deimination of histone H2A and H4 at arginine 3 in HL-60 granulocytes". Biochemistry. 44 (15): 5827–34. doi:10.1021/bi047505c. PMID 15823041.
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. S2CID 4427026.
• Cao R, Tsukada Y, Zhang Y (2006). "Role of Bmi-1 and Ring1A in H2A ubiquitylation and Hox gene silencing". Mol. Cell. 20 (6): 845–54. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2005.12.002. PMID 16359901.
• Bergink S, Salomons FA, Hoogstraten D, et al. (2006). "DNA damage triggers nucleotide excision repair-dependent monoubiquitylation of histone H2A". Genes Dev. 20 (10): 1343–52. doi:10.1101/gad.373706. PMC 1472908. PMID 16702407.
• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE, et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1". Nature. 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414.