Some bacteria have proteins much like ours that organise their DNA. Biochemists from Remus T. Dame & the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen reveal this in a new paper. Their work helps us better understand evolution & how bacteria organise their DNA. Read: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0… Vikram Alva Samuel Schwab

Thrilled to share our manuscript on bacterial histone HBb from Bdellovibrio in Nucleic Acids Res! We report DNA-bound HBb structures, showing its DNA bending properties. With Birte Hernandez Alvarez, Remus T. Dame, Yimin Hu, Samuel Schwab, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Leiden Science academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Nice to see our manuscript on bacterial histone HBb from Bdellovibrio online: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… Different from eukaryotic/archaeal histones, HBb binds and bends DNA as dimer. With Birte Hernandez Alvarez, Vikram Alva , Yimin Hu, Samuel Schwab , Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen , Leiden Science

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I am very pleased to see our latest review article - part of the upcoming special issue on Prokaryotic Chromosome Organisation - online in Molecular Microbiology Mol Micro Editors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

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I am very pleased to share our recent study on prokaryotic histone structure and diversity nature.com/articles/s4146… Great work by PhD student Samuel Schwab. With Aimee Boyle, Vikram Alva, Birte Hernandez Alvarez, Yimin Hu, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Leiden Science

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Leidse chemici ontdekken nieuwe manieren waarop eencelligen hun DNA organiseren universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/09…