This Brush Up is sponsored by Cayman Chemical. Learn more about chemical inhibitors of histone modification. Histone modification affects how tightly DNA wraps around histone proteins, yielding ...
Scheme showing the structure of cytosine, 5-methylcytosine, and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Adding a methyl group to the DNA base cytosine represses gene expression in mammalian cells. To remove the ...
Under physiological conditions, most double-stranded nucleic acids adopt right-handed helical conformations such as B-DNA or A-RNA. However, under specific cellular stresses, nucleic acids can ...