coli? The answer lies in the difference in gene expression and regulation used. Regulation of transcription in eukaryotes is a result of the combined effects of structural properties (how DNA is ...

The control of gene expression in eukaryotes is more complex than that in prokaryotes. In general, a greater number of regulatory proteins are involved, and regulatory binding sites may be located ...

These kinds of regulatory mechanisms are thought to have given eukaryotes a leg up in evolving into complex multicellular ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

The preprint also presented a workflow for “generative epigenomics,” which designed DNA sequences with desirable chromatin accessibility profiles to simulate eukaryotic gene regulation.

In addition to providing insights into rotifers, the enzyme “provides a glimpse,” says Arkhipova, “into the sequence of events that had to occur in early evolution of plants and animals,” when ...

Eukaryotes and archaea have long been considered “sister groups” based on similarities in their genes and metabolic pathways. But it wasn’t clear whether eukaryotes and archaea shared a common ...

In contrast, in eukaryotic genes, the primary RNA transcript, known as pre-mRNA, undergoes a process called splicing. During splicing, introns are excised, and exons are joined together to form a ...