Evolutionarily preserved mechanism governs use of genes
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 09:35
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at Uppsala University have found that the protein coding parts of a gene are packed in special nucleosomes. The same type of packaging is found in the roundworm C elegans, which is a primeval relative of humans. The mechanism can thereby be traced back a billion years in time, according to the study presented in the journal Genome Research.