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 ...

To each tube add 40 μl of protein A–agarose beads and pre-clear ... using PCR primer pairs that amplify sequences for which the histone modification status is known. The purified DNA (we ...

Researchers discovered that a chemical alteration on a single protein, histone H3, is essential for ... because of its simple genetics and the fact that its genetic elements are incredibly similar ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Now, Warnecke and colleagues are challenging the idea that these space-saving proteins are not commonplace in bacteria. In a preprint uploaded to bioRxiv this ...

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and ...