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histone
[ his-tohn ]
noun
- any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
histone
/ ˈhɪstəʊn /
noun
- any of a group of basic proteins present in cell nuclei and implicated in the spatial organization of DNA
histone
/ hĭs′tōn′ /
- Any of several proteins that, together with DNA, make up most of the chromatin in a cell nucleus.
A Closer Look
Example Sentences
They showed how the four principal eukaryotic histones were related to each other and to the archaeal histones.
Last December, he published a paper showing that there are diverse variants of histone proteins with different functions.
From those similarities and differences, researchers are gleaning new insights, not only into how the histones helped to shape the origins of complex life, but also into how variants of histones affect our own health today.
At the same time, though, new studies of histones in an unusual group of viruses are complicating the answers about where our histones really came from.
A lot of these early hypotheses looked at histones in terms of their ability to allow the cell to expand its genome.
The histone was so toxic that its anaphylactic properties could not be studied.
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