Tsukuba, Japan—In eukaryotes, genomic DNA, which is a very long double helix containing all the genetic information, wraps around a globular protein called a histone and folds it many times before ...
Specifically, PRC2 adds a well-known repressive tag called H3K27me3 to histone proteins; while PRC1 adds related tags, H2Aub or H2A.Zub, to the histone H2A or a variant histone called H2A.Z, ...
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 ...