However, the structure of chromatin also appears to serve a second, possibly more important role, in that it gives eukaryotic cells the capability to exert complex levels of control over gene ...

Proteins interact with DNA to regulate many vital processes in cells. Nearly 40 years ago ... To do so, they planned to stabilize proteins at their chromatin binding locations and use nucleic acid ...

Dr. Toshio “Toshi” Tsukiyama studies how cells regulate chromatin, the packaging proteins responsible for compressing several feet of DNA inside each cell’s tiny nucleus. This genetic material needs ...