The beads are called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome is made of DNA wrapped around eight histone proteins that function like a spool and are called a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is composed ...

Molecular biologists decode the epigenetic silencing of problematic retroviral gene sequences ... DNA sections by epigenetically modifying histone proteins that package the DNA.

To examine changes in histone modification during blood cell ... using primer pairs to amplify short sequences spanning the entire β-globin gene region. The DNA that was pulled down by ChIP ...

The researchers chose to focus on H3.3, a protein from the histone family. Histones bind tightly to DNA in cells and ...