Structures considered key to gene expression are surprisingly fleeting (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Structures considered key to gene expression are surprisingly fleeting

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MIT researchers have discovered that chromatin spends most of its time in a partially looped state (middle). Fully formed loops (right) occur only three to six percent of the time, they found.

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