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unusual facts about Histone code


Histone code

Histones are globular proteins with a flexible N-terminus (taken to be the tail) that protrudes from the nucleosome.



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Epigenome

The aberrant epigenetic landscape of the cancer cell is characterized by a global genomic hypomethylation, CpG island promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes, an altered histone code for critical genes and a global loss of monoacetylated and trimethylated histone H4.