Sentences with phrase «on the chromatin packaging»

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This mark (H3K4me3) modifies chromatin — the complex of DNA and its protein packaging — by adding three identical molecules known as methyl groups at a specific place on a packaging protein known as histone 3.

Cancer studies have increasingly focused on chromatin — the intertwined proteins and DNA that are packaged into chromosomes — because of its ability to regulate genes important for either activating or inhibiting tumorigenesis.

ATP - dependent chromatin remodelers are enzymes specialized on altering the structure and packaging state of chromatin.

Methylation is a punctuation - like modification of DNA that usually shuts genes off, and chromatin is the term describing DNA when it is clothed by proteins such as histones, a form of packaging that determines whether a gene is on or off.