Histone dynamics mediate DNA unwrapping and sliding in nucleosomes

Nucleosomes tightly wrap ~147 DNA base pairs around an octamer of histone proteins, but how nucleosome structural dynamics affect genome functioning is not completely clear. Here authors employ all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of nucleosome core particles and observe that octamer dynamics and...

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Main Authors: Grigoriy A. Armeev, Anastasiia S. Kniazeva, Galina A. Komarova, Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov, Alexey K. Shaytan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22636-9