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tightly packed chromatin.
Histones prevent DNA from
becoming tangled and
protect it from DNA damage. In addition,
histones play
important roles in gene...
- H1 is less
conserved than core
histones. The
globular domain is the most
conserved part of H1.
Unlike the
other histones, H1 does not make up the nucleosome...
-
recombinant histones. One
standard technique of
loading the DNA
around the
histones involves the use of salt dialysis. A
reaction consisting of the
histone octamers...
- chromosomes.
Methylation of
histones can
either increase or
decrease transcription of genes,
depending on
which amino acids in the
histones are methylated, and...
-
acetylated histones cannot pack as well
together as
deacetylated histones.
Phosphorylation Ubiquitination SUMOylation However,
there are many more
histone modifications...
-
Histone variants are
proteins that
substitute for the core
canonical histones (H3, H4, H2A, H2B) in
nucleosomes in
eukaryotes and
often confer specific...
-
tetramer found in eukaryotes. Notably,
archaeal single-chain
histones,
similar to
eukaryotic histones, are
found in the
bacterium Aquifex aeolicus, suggesting...
-
formation of head-to-tail
heterodimers of two
histones: H2A-H2B and H3-H4. However, H3 and H4
histones first form a
heterodimer and then in turn the heterodimer...
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dephosphorylation of
histones. Much like
histone acetylation,
histone phosphorylation neutralizes the
positive charge on
histones which induces euchromatin...
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Acetylation removes the
positive charge on the
histones,
thereby decreasing the
interaction of the N
termini of
histones with the
negatively charged phosphate...
