Archaeal chromatin ‘slinkies’ are inherently dynamic complexes with deflected DNA wrapping pathways
Eukaryotes and many archaea package their DNA with histones. While the four eukaryotic histones wrap ~147 DNA base pairs into nucleosomes, archaeal histones form ‘nucleosome-like’ complexes that continuously wind between 60 and 500 base pairs of DNA (‘archaeasomes’), suggested by crystal contacts an...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021-03-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/65587 |