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  • noun Plural form of nucleosome.

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Examples

  • Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes.

    Science Blog BJS 2010

  • The hormone-bound RAR began to unwind the chromatin and move aside large protein complexes, called nucleosomes, to make room for other DNA unwinding proteins and transcription factors.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Most of the DNA is tightly wrapped around protein particles called nucleosomes, which are connected to each other by flexible DNA segments, like pearls on a necklace.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The repeats determine how tightly the local DNA is wrapped around specific proteins called 'nucleosomes', and this packaging structure dictates to what extent genes can be activated.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • The repeats determine how tightly the local DNA is wrapped around specific proteins called 'nucleosomes', and this packaging structure dictates to what extent genes can be activated.

    Scientific Blogging 2009

  • It has since emerged that nucleosomes play regulatory roles in a wide range of chromosomal transactions.

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

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