Histone modifications control accessibility of DNA
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 18:14
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- n an advanced online publication in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology scientist from Dirk Schübeler's group from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research provide a genome-wide view of histone modifications and its influence on DNA accessibility. Their results expand the established break-up of chromatin into euchromatin and heterochomatin to a more complex pattern and link it to histone modifications.