histone

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The team at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) has discovered that a protein called histone is responsible for much of the damage.

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  1. noun Any of several small, basic proteins most commonly found in association with the DNA in the chromatin of eukaryotes.

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  • The DNA-histone complexes are then coiled and double-coiled to yield chromosomes. —  Understanding the Genome
  • Genome-wide prediction of conserved and nonconserved enhancers by histone acetylation patterns —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In addition, by comparing the human histone acetylation island sequences with mouse genome sequences, we find that despite the conservation of many of these regions between these species, 21,855 of these sequences are not conserved. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • AT-hooks were first discovered in members of the high mobility group of non-histone (HMG) chromatin proteins —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The second selection criterion was the study of the recorded data set for the histone fluorescence intensity channel: the recorded intensities should decrease regularly due to photobleaching effect. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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