Description
Product Characteristics:
RbAp48 (Retinoblastoma-binding protein p48 or Rb-associated protein p48)is a WD repeat protein that is a core histone binding subunit common to several complexes involved in chromatin assembly, chromatin remodeling, and histone deacetylation. These complexes include Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 (CAF1), which is required for chromatin assembly following DNA replication and repair, the core histone deacetylase (HDAC) complex, which promotes histone deacetylation and subsequent transcriptional repression, the nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylation complex NuRD, the nucleosome remodeling factor (NURF) complex, and the PRC2 complex, which promotes repression of homeotic genes during development. RpAp48 also interacts with the retinoblastoma protein, and with SPEN/MINT and BRCA1. It is also a component of the DREAM complex, which represses cell cycle-dependent genes in quiescent cells.
Subcellular location: Nucleus
Synonyms: RBBP4_HUMAN, Histone-binding protein RBBP4, Chromatin assembly factor 1 subunit C, CAF-1 subunit C, Chromatin assembly factor I p48 subunit, CAF-I 48 kDa subunit, CAF-I p48, Nucleosome-remodeling factor subunit RBAP48, Retinoblastoma-binding protein 4, RBBP-4, Retinoblastoma-binding protein p48.
Target Information: This gene encodes a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein which belongs to a highly conserved subfamily of WD-repeat proteins. It is present in protein complexes involved in histone acetylation and chromatin assembly. It is part of the Mi-2 complex which has been implicated in chromatin remodeling and transcriptional repression associated with histone deacetylation. This encoded protein is also part of co-repressor complexes, which is an integral component of transcriptional silencing. It is found among several cellular proteins that bind directly to retinoblastoma protein to regulate cell proliferation. This protein also seems to be involved in transcriptional repression of E2F-responsive genes. Three transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2008]