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Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways

Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones — which weren’t thought to exist in bacterial cells.
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A startling discovery in bacteria suggests that some species have a bizarre way of packaging chromosomes and regulating gene expression — using proteins that, until recently, weren’t thought to exist in bacteria at all.

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Nature 614, 401 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00334-4

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  1. Hocher, A. et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.525422 (2023).

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