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SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
An ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling complex which disrupts the nucleosome structure, increases the binding of transcription factors to nucleosomes, mobilizes histone octamers along DNA in cis, transfers histone octamers to different DNA fragments, displaces histone H2A/H2B dimers and generates superhelical torsion in DNA. Binds preferentially to four-way DNA and promotes resection initiation at a DNA double-strand break. Binds to DNA and nucleosomes without any DNA sequence specificity.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

ATP hydrolysis activity, DNA binding, hydrolase activity, chromatin organization, regulation of DNA metabolic process