A nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA packaging in eukaryotes. The structure of a nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight...
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histone octamer is the eight-protein complex found at the center of a nucleosome core particle. It consists of two copies of each of the four core histone...
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The nucleosome repeat length, (NRL) is the average distance between the centers of neighboring nucleosomes. NRL is an important physical chromatin property...
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Nucleosome Remodeling Factor (NURF) is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) that catalyzes...
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Chromatin (section Nucleosomes and beads-on-a-string)
forming nucleosomes and the so-called beads on a string structure (euchromatin). Multiple histones wrap into a 30-nanometer fiber consisting of nucleosome arrays...
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Epigenetics (section Nucleosome positioning)
involve positive feedback where modified nucleosomes recruit enzymes that similarly modify nearby nucleosomes. A simplified stochastic model for this type...
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S phase (section Nucleosome replication)
strand disrupts parental nucleosome octamers, resulting in the release of H3-H4 and H2A-H2B subunits. Reassembly of nucleosomes behind the replication fork...
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molecular biology, a chromatosome is a result of histone H1 binding to a nucleosome, which contains a histone octamer and DNA. The chromatosome contains 166...
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linker DNA is double-stranded DNA (38-53 base pairs long) in between two nucleosome cores that, in association with histone H1, holds the cores together....
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Nucleosome Positioning Region Database (NPRD) is a database of nucleosome formation sites (NFSs).[when?] International Society for Computational Biology...
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Mi-2/NuRD complex (redirect from Nucleosome Remodelling Deacetylase)
In the field of molecular biology, the Mi-2/NuRD (Nucleosome Remodeling Deacetylase) complex, is a group of associated proteins with both ATP-dependent...
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NAP1L3 (redirect from Nucleosome assembly protein 1 like 3)
Nucleosome assembly protein 1 like 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NAP1L3 gene. This gene is intronless and encodes a member of the nucleosome...
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Eukaryotic chromosome structure (section Nucleosomes)
wrapping of DNA around proteins called histones in order to form condensed nucleosomes. The double helix was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis...
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subfamily provides crucial nucleosome rearrangement, which is seen as ejection and/or sliding. The movement of nucleosomes provides easier access to the...
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nucleosome is covering a given genomic binding site or not. This can be determined using a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay. DNA-nucleosome...
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spools around which DNA winds to create structural units called nucleosomes. Nucleosomes in turn are wrapped into 30-nanometer fibers that form tightly...
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make up the nucleosome "bead". Instead, it sits on top of the structure, keeping in place the DNA that has wrapped around the nucleosome. H1 is present...
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organism. In most chromosomes, the very long thin DNA fibers are coated with nucleosome-forming packaging proteins; in eukaryotic cells the most important of...
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Nucleosome Occupancy and Methylome Sequencing (NOMe-seq) is a genomics technique used to simultaneously detect nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation...
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chromatin remodeling complexes which either move, eject or restructure nucleosomes. Besides actively regulating gene expression, dynamic remodeling of chromatin...
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Nucleosome assembly protein 1 like 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NAP1L5 gene. This gene encodes a protein that shares sequence similarity...
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acetylations removed from H3K27 in nucleosomes located at the enhancers that control those genes (see Figure "A nucleosome with histone tails set for transcriptional...
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histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4, to form chromatin. H2AX contributes to nucleosome-formation, chromatin-remodeling and DNA repair, and is also used in vitro...
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subfamily is the incorporation and removal of alternate histones in the nucleosome. In the presence of the H2A.Z histone, the INO80 subfamily of remodelers...
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ISWI remodeling complexes place nucleosomes along segments of DNA at regular intervals. The placement of nucleosomes by ISWI protein complexes typically...
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proteins are involved. The histones form a disk-shaped complex called a nucleosome, which contains two complete turns of double-stranded DNA wrapped around...
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acids (either DNA or RNA). Typical nucleoproteins include ribosomes, nucleosomes and viral nucleocapsid proteins. Nucleoproteins tend to be positively...
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tail) in a structure called a nucleosome and one segment of DNA is connected to an adjacent DNA segment on a nucleosome by linker DNA. When histone tails...
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molecular biological technique that was first pioneered in 2006 to measure nucleosome occupancy in the C. elegans genome, and was subsequently applied to the...
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development. Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each...
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