Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Self-assembling viral histones unravel early nucleosome evolution
N. A. T. Irwin, T. A. Richards
This study identifies viral histone repeats and proposes they represent ancestral intermediates in nucleosome evolution, showing they can self-assemble into eukaryotic-like nucleosomes.
DOI 10.1101/2023.09.20.558576