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The constitutive heterochromatin stains darker because of the highly condensed nature of the DNA. Constitutive heterochromatin is not to be confused with facultative heterochromatin , which is less condensed, less stable, and much less polymorphic , and which does not stain when using the C-banding technique.
All cells of a given species package the same regions of DNA in constitutive heterochromatin, and thus in all cells, any genes contained within the constitutive heterochromatin will be poorly expressed. For example, all human chromosomes 1, 9, 16, and the Y-chromosome contain large regions of constitutive heterochromatin. In most organisms ...
H3Y41P is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein histone H3. It is a mark that indicates the phosphorylation the 41st tyrosine residue of the histone H3 protein. To impose cell cycle-dependent regulation of constitutive heterochromatin, H3Y41p collaborates with other regulatory mechanisms.
The packaging of DNA into nucleosomes causes a 10 nanometer fibre which may further condense up to 30 nm fibres [33] Most of the euchromatin in interphase nuclei appears to be in the form of 30-nm fibers. [33] Chromatin structure is the more decondensed state, i.e. the 10-nm conformation allows transcription. [33] Heterochromatin vs. euchromatin
The genomic DNA of eukaryotic cells is wrapped around special protein molecules known as Histones. The complexes formed by the looping of the DNA are known as chromatin . The basic structural unit of chromatin is the nucleosome : this consists of the core octamer of histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) as well as a linker histone and about 180 base ...
The name is derived from centromeric or constitutive heterochromatin. The preparations undergo alkaline denaturation prior to staining leading to an almost complete depurination of the DNA. After washing the probe the remaining DNA is renatured again and stained with Giemsa solution consisting of methylene azure, methylene violet, methylene ...
Three years after the original suspect in a nearly 40-year-old double murder was exonerated based on DNA evidence and freed from prison after 20 years, a Georgia man has been arrested and charged ...
A constitutive gene is a gene that is transcribed ... (non-sequence changes in DNA structure that ... the expression of genes in euchromatin and heterochromatin ...