Biochemical tails tell a story
- Author
- Adarsh Sandhu
- Published
- Thu 25 Jul 2024
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Mikihiro Shibata and collaborators used high-speed atomic force microscopy to study nucleosome dynamics. They found that nucleosomes without histone tails, particularly H2B and H3, showed increased sliding and DNA unwrapping. These findings highlight the importance of histone tails in chromatin stability and structure.
