Gosuke Hayashi, Takuma Sueoka and Akimitsu Okamoto
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 4999-5002
DOI:
10.1039/C5CC10555B,
Communication
The chemical synthetic route to histone H2A is described. An H2A–H2B dimer, histone octamer, and nucleosome were reconstituted with the synthetic H2A. Fluorescein-labeled H2A and multiply modified H2A, which has three different posttranslational modifications, were also synthesized, and applied to live-cell imaging and in vitro nucleosome stability assays, respectively.