DNA methylation and histone modification influence each other during development. Histone methylation can help to direct DNA methylation patterns, and DNA methylation seems to serve as a template ...

The beads are called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome is made of DNA wrapped around eight histone proteins that function like a spool and are called a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is composed ...

In a preprint uploaded to bioRxiv this January that has yet to undergo peer review, the team describes hundreds of potential histone proteins in bacteria, including one that they predict interacts ...

Small chemical modifications can be added to histones, which allow proteins to access the tightly bound DNA from their histone bookcases to turn "on" and "off" genes in the organism. With ready ...

The basic organizational unit of the genome is a nucleosome, which is a short segment of DNA wound around a complex of eight histone subunits. Each of these histones has a tail region which can be ...

These minichromosomes bind with histone and nonhistone proteins, becoming transcriptionally active and sustaining viral replication. Key epigenetic mechanisms—such as DNA methylation, histone ...

Novel technology enables discovery, which could help predict tumour recurrence Researchers from the Fred Hutch Cancer Centre, ...

They discovered that despite relatively weak binding by an essential protein—histone variant CENP-A/Cse4—to DNA, other proteins are recruited to one specific site in the center of the chromosome ...

Focuses on expanding the protein structure-function paradigm to include dynamics or protein motions. Particularly interested in proteins that influence the wrapping of DNA around histone proteins in ...