{"id":78786,"date":"2018-05-15T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/key-part-of-human-gene-activation-revealed-by-new-study"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:04:46","slug":"key-part-of-human-gene-activation-revealed-by-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/key-part-of-human-gene-activation-revealed-by-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Key part of human gene activation revealed by new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-part-of-human-gene-activation-revealed-by-new-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 15 (UPI) \u2014 Until now, scientists weren\u2019t sure how gene activation mechanisms avoided nucleosomes, the bodyguards tasked with keeping DNA turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, however, have pinpointed a key factor responsible for unraveling nucleosome structures and allowing genes to be activated.<\/p>\n<p>Geneticists described the newly identified nucleosome destabilizing factor, or NDF, this week <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/genesdev.cshlp.org\/content\/early\/2018\/05\/14\/gad.313973.118\" target=\"_blank\">in the journal Genes and Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/05\/15\/Key-part-of-human-gene-activation-revealed-by-new-study\/8491526409819\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/05\/15\/Key-part-of-huma...526409819\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 15 (UPI) \u2014 Until now, scientists weren\u2019t sure how gene activation mechanisms avoided nucleosomes, the bodyguards tasked with keeping DNA turned off. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, however, have pinpointed a key factor responsible for unraveling nucleosome structures and allowing genes to be activated. Geneticists described the newly identified nucleosome destabilizing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78854,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78786\/revisions\/78854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}