Chromatin accessibility complex 1

Chromatin accessibility complex 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRAC1 gene. [5]

CHRAC1
Identifiers
Aliases	CHRAC1, CHARC1, CHARC15, CHRAC-1, CHRAC-15, CHRAC15, YCL1, chromatin accessibility complex 1, chromatin accessibility complex subunit 1
External IDs	OMIM: 607268 MGI: 2135796 HomoloGene: 41174 GeneCards: CHRAC1
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 8 (human)[1] Band 8q24.3 Start 140,511,311 bp[1] End 140,517,154 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 15 (mouse)[2] Band 15|15 D3 Start 73,090,392 bp[2] End 73,097,554 bp[2]
Gene ontology Molecular function • transferase activity • DNA binding • DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity • nucleotidyltransferase activity • GO:0001948 protein binding • protein heterodimerization activity Cellular component • epsilon DNA polymerase complex • cell nucleus • CHRAC Biological process • DNA biosynthetic process • chromatin remodeling • nucleosome mobilization • heterochromatin organization involved in chromatin silencing Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	54108	93696
Ensembl	ENSG00000104472	ENSMUSG00000068391
UniProt	Q9NRG0	Q9JKP8
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_017444	NM_053068
RefSeq (protein)	NP_059140	NP_444298
Location (UCSC)	Chr 8: 140.51 – 140.52 Mb	Chr 15: 73.09 – 73.1 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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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.

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000104472 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000068391 - Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. "Entrez Gene: Chromatin accessibility complex 1". Retrieved 2016-10-26.

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.