Catalytic subunit of the histone acetyltransferase complex (NuA4); acetylates four conserved internal lysines of histone H4 N-terminal tail and can acetylate histone H2A; master regulator of cellular acetylation balance; required for cell cycle progression and transcriptional silencing at the rDNA locus and regulation of autophagy; human ortholog TIP60/KAT5 is implicated in cancer and other diseases, functionally complements lethality of the esa1 null mutation [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005770]
KAT5, TAS1
Chromosome XV: 792,531-793,868 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006948.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 225 orthologues, 2 paralogues and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.