A small nucleosome from a weird virus with a fat genome

Alessandro Vannini; Ivan Marazzi

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2021.08.014

A small nucleosome from a weird virus with a fat genome

Mol Cell. 2021 Sep 2;81(17):3447-3448. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.08.014.

Authors

Alessandro Vannini¹, Ivan Marazzi²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Structural Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK; Fondazione Human Technopole, Structural Biology Research Centre, 20157, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: alessandro.vannini@fht.org.
² Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: ivan.marazzi@mssm.edu.

PMID: 34478653
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.08.014

Abstract

Valencia-Sánchez et al. (2021) and Liu et al. (2021) provide structural and biological insights about the existence and importance of a nucleosome-like particle in a family of giant viruses.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Genome
Giant Viruses* / genetics
Nucleosomes / genetics
Viruses*

Substances

Nucleosomes

Abstract

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