Histones are the primary building blocks of chromatin in eukaryotes and many archaea. Bacteria are thought to rely on an orthogonal set of proteins to organize their chromosomes. Several bacterial genomes do, however, encode proteins with putative histone fold domains. Whether these proteins adopt a...
ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) Archaea Leptospira interrogans serovar Manilae Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus