Sentence examples for diversification of histone from inspiring English sources

The diversification of histone acetylases and DNA methylases appears to have proceeded via repeated emergence of new versions, most probably via transfers from bacteria to different eukaryotic lineages, again resulting in lineage-specific diversity in epigenetic signals.

Diversification of PC function (recognition of histone tail modification by its chromodomain and recruitment of repressor factor by PcR box) coincides with the trade off between insect specific CIPC and vertebrate homologue specific motifs including the DNA binding motif AT-Hook/ATHL.

Whether expansions and diversification in histone 4 of L. (Viannia) braziliensis have a role in transcriptional regulation in Leishmania remains to be investigated.

Although the histone H3 genes were present in the neo-X1 and neo-X2 chromosomes of D. lilloanus, this sequence was not apparently consistent with sex chromosome diversification; this phenomenon could be associated with the intrinsic mechanism of histone H3 dispersion in the D. lilloanus genome after the divergence of the Dichromatos species.

"Two features of histone modifications are notable," Allis said.

There are five classes of histone.

A histone of peas and cows differs in just 2 of its 102 amino acid units.

"We became interested in the process of histone modification," he said.

"The genes that were turned 'on' were invariably associated with one form of histone, while the genes that were turned 'off' were invariably associated with a different form of histone".

The homeostatic balance of nucleosomal histone acetylation is maintained by actions of histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases (HDAC).

Two classes of histone lysine demethylases remove histone methylation.