Pfeffer U, Ferrari N, Tosetti F, Vidali G
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy.
Exp Cell Res. 1988 Sep;178(1):25-30. doi: 10.1016/0014-4827(88)90374-6.
Transcriptionally inactive avian red blood cell nuclei were reactivated by Sendai virus-induced fusion of chicken erythrocytes with HeLa cells. We have used antibodies which specifically recognize the tetraacetylated form of H4 histone to show that histone hyperacetylation is an event required for chromatin reorganization leading to a transcriptionally competent chromatin structure.