The N-terminal tails of histones H2A and H2B adopt two distinct conformations in the nucleosome with contact and reduced contact to DNA.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167110
Abstract: The nucleosome comprises two histone dimers of H2A-H2B and one histone tetramer of (H3-H4)2, wrapped around by ∼145bp of DNA. Detailed core structures of nucleosomes have been established by X-ray and cryo-EM, however, histone tails… read more here.
Keywords: adopt two; h2a tail; dna; h2a h2b ... See more keywords