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The Nucleosome (Ada and Don Olins)

The Nucleosome (Ada and Don Olins)

FromEpigenetics Podcast


The Nucleosome (Ada and Don Olins)

FromEpigenetics Podcast

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34 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2017
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The Nucleosome is the basic building unit of chromatin. It consists out of 147 base pairs of double stranded DNA wrapped around the Histone core octamer that consists out of 2 copies of each dimer of H2A/H2B, and H3/H4. Nucleosomes are organized like "beads on a string" to form a modifiable regulatory basis for higher order structures of chromatin. The first images of the nucleosome as a particle was published by our guests Ada and Don Olins from the University of New England in 1974 (Olins, A. L. & Olins, D. E. Spheroid Chromatin Units (ν Bodies). Science 183, 330–332 (1974).). This observation lead the way to numerous discoveries around chromatin which ultimately culminated in the discovery of the 2.8 Angstrom high-resolution crystal structure 20 years ago in the year 1997 (Luger, K., Mäder, A. W., Richmond, R. K., Sargent, D. F. & Richmond, T. J. Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution. Nature 389, 251–260 (1997).)
References for this episode
Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins. Spheroid Chromatin Units (ν Bodies). Science. 25 Jan 1974: Vol. 183, Issue 4122, pp. 330-332. DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4122.330
Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins, et al. An epichromatin epitope. Nucleus. 2011 Jan-Feb; 2(1): 47–60. DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.1.13271

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