Tag Archives: reconstitution
Preparation of various nucleosomes for biochemical and structural analyses
Genomic DNA, which encodes genetic information, is three-dimensionally organized in the cell as chromatin. Its basic unit is the nucleosome, a disc-like structure containing two copies each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4, with DNA wound around
Can the chloroplast division machinery be evolutionarily dated back to bacteria?
The chloroplast, known to have originated around a billion years ago, is now one of the most recognizable characteristics of the plant cell. After the engulfment of the ancient cyanobacterium by the eukaryotic host cell, the former
