A nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA packaging in eukaryotes. The structure of a nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight...
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The nucleosome repeat length, (NRL) is the average distance between the centers of neighboring nucleosomes. NRL is an important physical chromatin property...
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histone octamer is the eight-protein complex found at the center of a nucleosome core particle. It consists of two copies of each of the four core histone...
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Nucleosome Remodeling Factor (NURF) is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) that catalyzes...
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Chromatin (section Nucleosomes and beads-on-a-string)
forming nucleosomes and the so-called beads on a string structure (euchromatin). Multiple histones wrap into a 30-nanometer fiber consisting of nucleosome arrays...
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S phase (section Nucleosome replication)
strand disrupts parental nucleosome octamers, resulting in the release of H3-H4 and H2A-H2B subunits. Reassembly of nucleosomes behind the replication fork...
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Epigenetics (section Nucleosome positioning)
involve positive feedback where modified nucleosomes recruit enzymes that similarly modify nearby nucleosomes. A simplified stochastic model for this type...
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molecular biology, a chromatosome is a result of histone H1 binding to a nucleosome, which contains a histone octamer and DNA. The chromatosome contains 166...
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Nucleosome Positioning Region Database (NPRD) is a database of nucleosome formation sites (NFSs).[when?] International Society for Computational Biology...
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Mi-2/NuRD complex (redirect from Nucleosome Remodelling Deacetylase)
In the field of molecular biology, the Mi-2/NuRD (Nucleosome Remodeling Deacetylase) complex, is a group of associated proteins with both ATP-dependent...
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