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Histones: packing DNA 

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medical illustration of Histones help pack the enormous amount of material in our genome. They are the protein complexes that DNA is wrapped around to reduce tangling and compress space. Here you see the wrapping of around 1 million basepairs of DNA, approximately 0.03% of the human genome.
Next medical illustration of RNA Polymerase III is responsible for making the short RNAs that are used for protein synthesis. When the structure of RNA Pol III was recently published in Nature, we were asked to provide the cover-art. See more here: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v553/n7688/index.html

RNA Pol III - Pol positions

Histones help pack the enormous amount of material in our genome. They are the protein complexes that DNA is wrapped around to reduce tangling and compress space. Here you see the wrapping of around 1 million basepairs of DNA, approximately 0.03% of the human genome.

Keywords: 3D, Editorial, Cell biology / Histology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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