CAS BI 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Okazaki Fragments, Histone H2B, Arginine

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Structure of dna was deduced by x-ray diffraction and proposed by watson and crick. 8)this antiparallel arrangement requires that a new dna chain being copied from an existing strand must run in the opposite direction. Modifications to dna structure: alternative dna forms (b-dna) Left-handed helix (z-dna)-involved in gene transcription and gene recombination: chemical modification. The methylation of dna leads to a shut down of transcription: supercoiling-compaction of dna. Supercoils induced by a group of enzymes called topoisomerases-an enzyme that changes the extent of supercoiling of the dna complex. These enzymes can also remove supercoils or relax them. Supercoiling plays a major role in gene regulation, transcription, and dna replication. Proteins associated with dna: histones-basic proteins rich in arginine and lysine that occur in close association with the nuclear dna of most eukaryotic organisms, major types of histones - h1, h2a, h2b, h3, and h4.

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