Sentences with phrase «into nucleosomes»
Genomic DNA is packaged into nucleosomes, which are formed by histone proteins that have DNA wrapped around them.
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The helix winds onto nucleosomes to form chromatin, which winds and winds in its turn into formations similar to what you get when you keep twisting the two ends of a string.
Our genes are packaged into cells by wrapping them around protein structures 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.
The genomic DNA of complex organisms is wrapped around nucleosomes and packaged into various conformations that regulate the access of different gene regulatory factors to their target sites.
Nucleosomes then coil into chromatin fibres that loop and tangle like a bowl of noodles.
We discovered that nucleosomes are arranged into discrete groups, which we called «nucleosome clutches» (as an analogy with egg clutches).