Role of histone tails in structural stability of the nucleosome.

Histone tails play an important role in nucleosome structure and dynamics. Here we investigate the effect of truncation of histone tails H3, H4, H2A and H2B on nucleosome structure with 100 ns all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Tail domains of H3 and H2B show propensity of α-helics formation d...

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Main Authors: Mithun Biswas, Karine Voltz, Jeremy C Smith, Jörg Langowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3240580?pdf=render