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  • adjective Not derived or obtained from a histone.
  • noun A chemical compound that is not a histone.

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Examples

  • Vagnarelli P, Gassmann R, Earnshaw WC (2003) Condensin is required for nonhistone protein assembly and structural integrity of vertebrate mitotic chromosomes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexander Samoshkin et al. 2009

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