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Chemists discover new way to organize DNA in single-celled organisms

Conventional histone proteins form nucleosomes. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52337-y It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones – proteins that make up DNA. Now, PhD student Samuel Schwab from Leiden University has found that histones in these organisms are much more diverse than previously thought. Schwab and his colleagues describe more…