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Fig. 1 | Human Genomics

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From: The tale of histone modifications and its role in multiple sclerosis

Fig. 1

Schematic presentation of a nucleosome. A nucleosome functions as the fundamental packing unit of chromatin, with a stretch of double-stranded DNA wrapped around a histone octamer of two H2A–H2B dimers and a (H3–H4) 2 tetramer. Different possible histone modifications (mainly acetylation and methylation) at core histones and the processes of the modifications are shown

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Human Genomics

ISSN: 1479-7364