ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2010) — Test system on Drosophila should provide the key to histone function. The genetic inherited material DNA was long viewed as the sole bearer of hereditary information. The function of its packaging proteins, the histones, was believed to be exclusively structural. Additional genetic information can be stored, however, and passed on to subsequent generations through chemical changes in the DNA or histones. read more
Original paper: A genetic system to assess in vivo the functions of histones and histone modifications in higher eukaryotes
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