Sentences with phrase «epigenetic information called»

Specifically, the study reveals a mechanism that helps explain how dividing cells pass patterns of epigenetic information called methyl tags to their daughter cells, a crucial part of regulating gene expression across cell generations.

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The findings center on a protein called UHRF1, a guardian of the cell's epigenetic information that can recognize patterns of epigenetic tags and promote the addition of new ones.

Unlike mutations, these changes to the surfaces of genes — part of what's called epigenetics — alter how those genes behave without rewriting the information they encode.

Through this packaging mechanism, researchers think that histone proteins are the key to regulating access to the genetic information by making different parts of the DNA accessible to factors that express the gene, so - called epigenetic regulation.