Nucleosome (IMAGE)

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Nucleosome

Caption

This image shows a nucleosome -- the major carrier of epigenetic information -- in front of the DNA sequence of a typical gene promoter, which is highly enriched for the "CG" sequence pattern carrying DNA methylation in mammals. [Details: The nucleosome structure was taken from the Protein Data Bank (accession number 1KX5), with rendering using VMD and POV-Ray and postprocessing in Adobe Photoshop.]

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Christoph Bock/CeMM

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