Chromatin consists of a complex of DNA and histone proteins as its core components and
plays an important role in both packaging DNA and regulating DNA metabolic pathways …

Epitope imprinting is a promising method for creating specialized recognition sites that
resemble natural biorecognition elements. Epitope-imprinted materials have gained a lot of …

In eukaryotes, DNA is packaged into chromatin by canonical histone proteins. The
specialized histone H3 variant CENP-A provides an epigenetic and structural basis for …

Mitosis ensures equal genome segregation in the eukaryotic lineage. This process is
facilitated by microtubule attachment to each chromosome via its centromere. In …

Conspectus Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an extremely powerful tool in the field of
bionanotechnology because of its ability to image single molecules and make …

Chromatin assembled with centromere protein A (CENP-A) is the epigenetic mark of
centromere identity. Using new reference models, we now identify sites of CENP-A and …

In a viscoelastic environment, the diffusion of a particle becomes non-Markovian due to the
memory effect. An open question concerns quantitatively explaining how self-propulsion …

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster serves as a powerful model organism for advancing
our understanding of biological processes, not just by studying its similarities with other …

Spatial localizing of skeletal proteins in biogenic minerals remains a challenge in
biomineralization research. To address this goal, we developed a novel in situ mapping …

Repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) is key for maintenance of genome integrity.
When DSBs are repaired by homologous recombination, DNA ends can undergo extensive …