| UniProt functional annotation for P02283 | |||
| UniProt code: P02283. |
| Organism: | Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly). | |
| Taxonomy: | Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Arthropoda; Hexapoda; Insecta; Pterygota; Neoptera; Endopterygota; Diptera; Brachycera; Muscomorpha; Ephydroidea; Drosophilidae; Drosophila; Sophophora. | |
| Function: | Core component of nucleosome. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. DNA accessibility is regulated via a complex set of post-translational modifications of histones, also called histone code, and nucleosome remodeling. | |
| Subunit: | The nucleosome is a histone octamer containing two molecules each of H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 assembled in one H3-H4 heterotetramer and two H2A-H2B heterodimers. The octamer wraps approximately 147 bp of DNA. | |
| Subcellular location: | Nucleus. Chromosome. | |
| Ptm: | Monoubiquitination of Lys-118 by Bre1 gives a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation and is also prerequisite for histone H3 'Lys-4' and 'Lys-79' methylation. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:3127388}. | |
| Ptm: | Methylation at Pro-2 increases upon heat shock. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:3127388}. | |
| Ptm: | GlcNAcylation at Ser-110 promotes monoubiquitination of Lys-118. It fluctuates in response to extracellular glucose, and associates with transcribed genes (Probable). {ECO:0000305}. | |
| Similarity: | Belongs to the histone H2B family. {ECO:0000305}. | |
Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.