Talk:High mobility group

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Genetics This article is part of WikiProject Genetics, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to genetics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this page, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Stub This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received an importance rating.
WikiProject Medicine This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at the doctor's mess.
Stub This page has been rated as stub-Class on the quality assessment scale
??? This page has not yet received a rating on the importance assessment scale.
Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject This article is within the scope of the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject. To participate, visit the WikiProject for more information. The WikiProject's current monthly collaboration is focused on improving Restriction enzyme.
Stub This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the assessment scale.
Mid This article is on a subject of Mid-importance within molecular and cellular biology.

Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

I'm taking a nervous system development class currently, and this page isn't very informative. I thought that there was some kind of functional reason for the high mobility group domain. Why is it called high mobility in the first place? I was trying to figure out the information given on this brief page. what does it mean to be a "chromosomal protein?" there is not a wiki page defining that term. i gathered from my textbook that having a high mobility group might mean that this family of proteins can cross into the nucleus easily and/or bind directly to DNA. Is that correct? In the "function" section of this page, it only mentions some examples of what can happen when these transcription factors get messed up. What do they do when they are working correctly?

thanks,

Jeremy Eagles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.109.253.217 (talk) 04:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)