Chromatin is a complex of DNA and protein found in eukaryotic cells. The primary function is to package long DNA molecules into more compact, denser structures...
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and...
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Chromatin remodeling is the dynamic modification of chromatin architecture to allow access of condensed genomic DNA to the regulatory transcription machinery...
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salt-and-pepper chromatin, also salt-and-pepper nuclei and stippled chromatin, refers to cell nuclei that demonstrate granular chromatin (on light microscopy)...
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Bivalent chromatin are segments of DNA, bound to histone proteins, that have both repressing and activating epigenetic regulators in the same region....
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Chromosome (section Interphase chromatin)
the term chromatin, which was introduced by Walther Flemming. Some of the early karyological terms have become outdated. For example, Chromatin (Flemming...
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Barr body (redirect from Chromatin body)
A Barr body (named after discoverer Murray Barr) or X-chromatin is an inactive X chromosome. In species with XY sex-determination (including humans),...
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Hi-C is a high-throughput genomic and epigenomic technique to capture chromatin conformation. In general, Hi-C is considered as a derivative of a series...
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Euchromatin (redirect from Open chromatin)
Euchromatin (also called "open chromatin") is a lightly packed form of chromatin (DNA, RNA, and protein) that is enriched in genes, and is often (but...
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An active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a region of DNA in a eukaryotic chromosome in which histone modifications such as acetylation lead to exposure of...
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