The cryo-EM structure of DNA-assembled histone pairs Hβ-Hα and Hδ-Hγ from Marseillevirus, a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus, reveals that these proteins form viral nucleosomes with highly conserved features when compared to canonical eukaryotic nucleosomes.
- Marco Igor Valencia-Sánchez
- Stephen Abini-Agbomson
- Karim-Jean Armache