Origins of DNA folding suggested in archaea

Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 13:52 in Biology & Nature

Proteins in archaea bend strands of DNA in a way that's similar in eukaryotes, new research reveals. That similarity hints at the evolutionary origin of the elaborate folding that eukaryotic cells use to cram their genome into a nucleus.

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