euchromatin

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The rods of nocturnal retinas have a unique inverted pattern, where heterochromatin localizes in the nuclear center, whereas euchromatin, as well as nascent transcripts and splicing machinery, line the nuclear border.

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  • The rods of diurnal retinas possess the conventional architecture found in nearly all eukaryotic cells, with most heterochromatin situated at the nuclear periphery and euchromatin residing toward the nuclear interior. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The rods of nocturnal retinas have a unique inverted pattern, where heterochromatin localizes in the nuclear center, whereas euchromatin, as well as nascent transcripts and splicing machinery, line the nuclear border. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We find that HP1 invades euchromatin across the inversion breakpoints over ~175kb and —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • In normal non-dividing cells, DNA is typically packaged into chromatin, which arranges the DNA into a unique order where the more condensed DNA, heterochromatin, is located on the periphery, while the less dense euchromatin, which is where the genes are active, is found in the centre. —  The Times of India
  • Some regions of this so-called chromatin contain genes, that is information about proteins, and are known as euchromatin. —  innovations-report
 

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