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What does methylation do to chromatin?
Posted January 3, 2024

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Methylation compresses the structure of chromatin. 

In the methylation process, a methyl group that gets added to the tail of histone proteins maintains the positive charge of the histones. The strong attraction between the positively charged methylated histone and negatively charged DNA causes the DNA to get tightly wound up, compressing the chromatin structure.