Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
...substrate (the histone-derived peptide) which can localise the construct specifically to the histone protein ...target the K9 (pcDNA3-K9 histone methylation reporter) and K27 (pcDNA3-K27 histone methylation reporter) ... remodeling. Chromatin is a complex of DNA and histone proteins that compacts cellular DNA into chromosomes...dangerous DNA damage. If the way DNA is wrapped around histones changes, then gene expression can change as well...The more frequently and tightly bound DNA is to histones, the more compacted it becomes. This prevents ...can occur by two main mechanisms, either through histone modifications, which can influence the transcription...plasmid-based biosensor to visualise changes in histone methylation in living cells. Essentially this reporter...