Biochemical tails tell a story (IMAGE)

Nano Life Science Institute (NanoLSI), Kanazawa University

Biochemical tails tell a story

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Illustration of H2B or H3 tail-less nucleosomes. Nucleosomes lacking H2B and H3 tails exhibit weakened interactions between histone tails and nucleosomal DNA, leading to less stable nucleosome structure.

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