Reposted by @nickyuen.bsky.social
Mind-blowing 🧠
I have no idea histones or histones like proteins are present in bacteria nucleoids…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Histones with an unconventional DNA-binding mode in vitro are major chromatin constituents in the ba...
Computational, experimental and structural analyses reveal an abundant, nucleoid-associated histone and an alternative mode for DNA binding in vitro in the bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.