Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense it into chromatin. Nuclear DNA does not appear in free linear strands; it is highly condensed and ...

Warnecke wasn’t the first to look for histone in prokaryotes, but such searches, which tend to use eukaryotic histones as references, have only yielded a few potential candidates. That may be because ...

Le niveau suivant de compaction de l'ADN fait intervenir d'autres protéines dites « non histones. » Le degré de condensation de l'ADN autour des nucléosomes d'histones et des protéines non histones ...