Physical model describes the distribution of nucleosome

Friday, August 20, 2010 - 08:28 in Biology & Nature

The DNA in the cell nuclei of higher organisms is tightly coiled around protein complexes called nucleosomes, which repress gene expression. Researchers in Germany have now developed a model that explains how nucleosomes are distributed around sites that must remain accessible to transcribing polymerases.

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