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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (21): 1-8.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2014-0697

Special Issue: 生物技术

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The Progress of Histone Deacetylase and Its Regulation

  

  • Received:2014-03-15 Revised:2014-05-23 Online:2014-07-25 Published:2014-07-25

Abstract: Histone deacetylation played an important role in epigenetic, and histone deacetylase, which acted in concert with histone acetyltransferase, was a target to develop new medicine of tumor inhibitor. This paper reviewed recent findings of histone deacetylase in animal and yeast, and analyzed their homology of amino acid sequence and conserved domains with Arabidopsis thaliana, summarized their function of regulation, aimed to predict its function in plant development. It is concluded that, from its response to hormone stimulation and abiotic stress, HDACs widely participates in plants’development. The function of Plant’s HDACs may differ from animal and yeast because of their different conserved domains distribution in protein sequences. Although HDACs’function in Non-histone acetylation is still unknown, Non-histone acetylation actually exists.