Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (7): 1769-1777.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2021.07.001

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The Mechanism of CAF-1 in Somatic Cell Reprogramming

ZHANG Yingbing, YU Ruiluan, QIAO Peipei, YANG Ying, ZHANG Yong, SU Jianmin*   

  1. Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
  • Received:2020-09-18 Online:2021-07-23 Published:2021-07-23

Abstract: Chromatin assembly factor-1 (CAF-1) is a histone chaperone composed of 3 subunits(p150, p60, and p48).CAF-1 mainly interacts with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) during DNA replication and is responsible for recruiting histones H3 and H4 depositing on newly synthesized DNA to facilitate nucleosome assembly. More and more studies have analyzed the structure and biological function of the CAF-1 complex,and found that CAF-1 plays an important role in the process of somatic cell reprogramming. Therefore, this paper focuses on the structure, biological function and the role of CAF-1 in somatic cell reprogramming.

Key words: CAF-1, somatic cell reprogramming, structure, function

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