Encodes an enzyme with histone acetyltransferase activity. HAM1 primarily acetylate histone H4, but also display some ability to acetylate H3. Prior acetylation of lysine 5 on histone H4 reduces radioactive acetylation by either HAM1. HAM1 acetylates histone H4 lysine 5.
Computational Description
histone acetyltransferase of the MYST family 1 (HAM1); FUNCTIONS IN: histone acetyltransferase activity, zinc ion binding, nucleic acid binding; INVOLVED IN: chromatin assembly or disassembly, regulation of transcription; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Winged helix-turn-helix transcription repressor DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011991), Acyl-CoA N-acyltransferase (InterPro:IPR016181), Chromo domain (InterPro:IPR000953), MOZ/SAS-like protein (InterPro:IPR002717); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: histone acetyltransferase of the MYST family 2 (TAIR:AT5G09740.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).