WIKIMEDIA, STEPHEN COLEBOURNE
Bends in the genome called i-motifs, which look like a “W” folded in the middle along the Y axis, lead to the upregulation of a gene, while hairpins in the same location of a gene cause suppression, researchers reported recently at the American Chemical Society meeting in Dallas, Texas. “It’s the sort of evidence we’ve been waiting for” to help confirm the role of i-motifs, John Brazier of the University of Reading who was not part of the study, told Chemical & Engineering News.
In an associated paper, researchers led by ...
