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#Question id: 2916


Which of the following statement is INCORRECT regarding the packaging of DNA into higher order chromatin structure?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. One of the two regions bound by H1 is the linker DNA at one end of the nucleosome. The second site of DNA binding is in the middle of the associated 147 bp (the only DNA duplex present at the dyad axis).

  2. Core histones that had undergone nuclease treatment are capable of forming 30-nm fibers. The most likely role of the tails is to stabilize the 30-nm fiber by interacting with adjacent nucleosomes.

  3. 30-nm fiber forms loops of 40–90 kb that are held together at their bases by a proteinaceous structure referred to as the nuclear scaffold abundant in Topoisomerase-II and SMC proteins.

  4. Positioning a nucleosome allows the DNA binding site for a regulatory protein to remain in the accessible linker DNA region as tightly positioned nucleosomes are most often found at sites directing the initiation of transcription.