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Nucleosome core particles are observed when chromatin in interphase is treated to cause the chromatin to unfold partially. The resulting image, via an electron microscope, is "beads on a string". The string is the DNA, while each bead in the nucleosome is a core particle. The nucleosome core particle is composed of DNA and histone proteins. [29]
The nucleosome core particle, together with histone H1, is known as a chromatosome. Nucleosomes, with about 20 to 60 base pairs of linker DNA, can form, under non-physiological conditions, an approximately 11 nm beads on a string fibre. The nucleosomes bind DNA non-specifically, as required by their function in general DNA packaging.
Histone H1 protein binds to the site where DNA enters and exits the nucleosome, wrapping 147 base pairs around the histone core and stabilising the nucleosome, [3] this structure is a chromatosome. [4] In the solenoid structure, the nucleosomes fold up and are stacked, forming a helix.
The organization of DNA within the nucleus begins with the 10 nm fiber, a "beads-on-a-string" structure [24] made of nucleosomes connected by 20-60bp linkers. A fiber of nucleosomes is interrupted by regions of accessible DNA, which are 100-1000bp long regions devoid of nucleosomes.
The linker histone H1 binds the nucleosome at the entry and exit sites of the DNA, thus locking the DNA into place [9] and allowing the formation of higher order structure. The most basic such formation is the 10 nm fiber or beads on a string conformation.
Euchromatin is composed of repeating subunits known as nucleosomes, reminiscent of an unfolded set of beads on a string, that are approximately 11 nm in diameter. [2] At the core of these nucleosomes are a set of four histone protein pairs: H3, H4, H2A, and H2B. [2]
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A diagram showing where H1 can be found in the nucleosome. Metazoan H1 proteins feature a central globular "winged helix" domain and long C-and short N-terminal tails. H1 is involved with the packing of the "beads on a string" sub-structures into a high order structure, whose details have not yet been solved. [1]