Histone modification controls development: Researchers demonstrate that chemical tags on histones regulate gene activity
Monday, February 11, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Every gene in the nucleus of an animal or plant cell is packaged into a beads-on-a-string like structure called nucleosomes: the DNA of the gene forms the string and a complex of proteins called histones forms the beads around which the DNA is wrapped.