H2A

Histone 2A
H2A
SMART accession number:SM00414
Description: -
Interpro abstract (IPR002119):

Histone H2A is a small, highly conserved nuclear protein that, together with two molecules each of histones H2B, H3 and H4, forms the eukaryotic nucleosome core [ (PUBMED:8121801) ]; the nucleosome octamer winds ~146 DNA base-pairs. In the mouse, histone H2A can be replaced by histone H2A-like 1 [ (PUBMED:17261847) ].

GO component:nucleosome (GO:0000786)
GO function:DNA binding (GO:0003677)
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There are 8028 H2A domains in 7999 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.

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