A giant virus genome is densely packaged by stable nucleosomes within virions
T. D. Bryson, P. De Ioannes, M. I. Valencia-Sanchez, J. G. Henikoff, P. B. Talbert, B. La Scola, K.-J. Armache, S. Henikoff
The paper shows that Marseillevirus uses fully wrapped nucleosomes to densely package its genome, differing from eukaryotic chromatin organization.
bioRxiv · Jan 15, 2022Evolutionary Biology