Researchers identify a process that enables access to genes

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Underneath ubiquitylation. The nucleus (blue) of a mutant yeast cell appears to be deformed due to the loss of a process ubiquitylation that underlies the unpackaging of DNA.
Underneath ubiquitylation. The nucleus (blue) of a mutant yeast cell appears to be deformed due to the loss of a process, ubiquitylation, that underlies the unpackaging of DNA.

It turns out there’s more than one way to skin a gene. New research from Rockefeller University suggests that two closely related DNA unpackaging mechanisms may not work the way scientists thought.


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