All-access genome: New study explores packaging of DNA

Friday, September 23, 2011 - 21:30 in Biology & Nature

A team of biophysicists has been preoccupied with tiny, spool-like entities known as nucleosomes. Their latest insights help explain how these structures wrap and unwrap, permitting regulatory proteins to access, bind with and act on regions of DNA.

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