The beads are called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome is made of DNA wrapped around eight histone proteins that function like a spool and are called a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is composed ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to pose a major global health threat. The virus evades immune responses and antiviral therapies due to the persistence of covalently closed circular ...

Together, eukaryotic DNA and the histone proteins that hold it together in a coiled form is called chromatin. DNA can be further compressed through a twisting process called supercoiling (Figure 9).

Scientists discovered a way to block hepatitis B infection using an anticancer drug, offering hope for new treatments.

In a preprint uploaded to bioRxiv this January that has yet to undergo peer review, the team describes hundreds of potential histone proteins in bacteria, including one that they predict interacts ...

Hepatitis B virus infection remains one of the leading causes of liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Small chemical modifications can be added to histones, which allow proteins to access the tightly bound DNA from their histone bookcases to turn "on" and "off" genes in the organism. With ready ...

Novel technology enables discovery, which could help predict tumour recurrence Researchers from the Fred Hutch Cancer Centre, ...

The basic organizational unit of the genome is a nucleosome, which is a short segment of DNA wound around a complex of eight histone subunits. Each of these histones has a tail region which can be ...

This article explores 6-base genome sequencing and how it is empowering researchers to expand their studies to include both ...

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and ...