Sentences with phrase «called nucleosomes»

Together, the DNA and histone molecules form beadlike structures called nucleosomes.

X-rays and microscopy showed that the primary level of chromatin organization involves 147 bases of DNA spooling around proteins to form particles approximately 11 nanometers (nm) in diameter called nucleosomes.

In this system, the DNA strand, with its genes, is coiled around molecules known as histones, which themselves are assembled into larger entities called nucleosomes.

Our genes are packaged into cells by wrapping them around protein structures called nucleosomes.

In January, a team at the University of Washington, Seattle, described in Cell a test that relies on tissue - specific differences in how DNA is packaged in structures called nucleosomes.

In order to fit inside cells, DNA is wrapped around small protein spindles, forming strings of molecules called nucleosomes.

ASF1 in fact «chaperones» a histone protein, which when coiled in a complex with DNA, forms the basic structural building block of DNA called a nucleosome.

Not exact matches

Made up of nucleosomes — roll - shaped bundles of DNA and protein — the heterochromatin is connected by a velcro - like feature called «Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1).»

They found that the addition of a phosphate group to a histone — called H2Av — triggered the entire nucleosome to change shape, exposing previously hidden parts of the nucleosome that began to interact with and activate PARP1.

In a study published in Molecular Cell this month, Alexei V. Tulin, PhD, Associate Professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center, and colleagues reported that chemical modification of one type of histone — called H2Av — leads to substantial changes in nucleosome shape.

As do human cells, yeast also possesses so - called «fragile» nucleosomes.

We discovered that nucleosomes are arranged into discrete groups, which we called «nucleosome clutches» (as an analogy with egg clutches).