Viral histones: pickpocket's prize or primordial progenitor?

PB Talbert, KJ Armache, S Henikoff - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2022 - Springer
The common histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 are the characteristic components of
eukaryotic nucleosomes, which function to wrap DNA and compact the genome as well as to …

Nucleosome structures built from highly divergent histones: parasites and giant DNA viruses

S Sato, M Dacher, H Kurumizaka - Epigenomes, 2022 - mdpi.com
In eukaryotes, genomic DNA is bound with histone proteins and packaged into chromatin.
The nucleosome, a fundamental unit of chromatin, regulates the accessibility of DNA to …