Chromatin domain (IMAGE)

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Chromatin domain

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Nucleosomes (orange spheres) in euchromatin form a condensed domain with cohesins (rings). Transcription occurs on the domain surface with various transcription factors and RNA Polymerase II.

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Sachiko Tamura & Kazuhiro Maeshima, National Institute of Genetics, ROIS. Reproduced from Trends in Cell Biology.

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