If parent cells and their daughter cells are to share a stable identity, parent cells must divide—and replicate their DNA—while ensuring that their histones are distributed properly to their daughter ...

Strands of DNA wrapped around a histone. Credit: Molekuul/Science Source Histones are among the most abundant proteins in the body. They act as spools that help compact DNA so our enormous genomes ...

The upper right portion illustrates viral nucleosome-like particles formed by co-occurring viral histone triplets and singlets. On the lower right, a network depicts distinct types of viral ...

DNA strands wrap around histones, which are clustered into eight-histone balls that are threaded like beads on a string into fibers that are further intertwined to form chromosomes. Cells don’t store ...

New research by researchers at Penn State and Ohio State helps explain how proteins called pioneer factors are able to open up the typically dense genetic material within our cells, packaged into ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Every second, as we breathe, sleep, eat and go about our lives, millions of biochemical reactions are happening in our cells. Among the hurly ...

Scientists studied how the epigenetic landscape influences the binding of pioneer transcription factors, affecting access to DNA. Like thread tightly wrapped around a spool, DNA is wrapped around ...

This Brush Up is sponsored by Cayman Chemical. Learn more about chemical inhibitors of histone modification. Histone modification affects how tightly DNA wraps around histone proteins, yielding ...

Researchers now reveal that nature's storage solution first evolved in ancient microbes living on Earth between one and two billion years ago. In almost every human cell, two metres-long DNA has to ...