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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of complexes composed of protein and nucleic acid and found in the nuclei and cytoplasm of all living cells, as in chromatin and ribosomes, and in viruses.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A nucleo-al-bumin or a nucleoproteid.

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  • noun biochemistry Any complex of a nucleic acid and a protein

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  • noun any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid

Etymologies

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nucleo- +‎ protein

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Examples

  • Here we show that elements homologous to the nucleoprotein (N) gene of bornavirus exist in the genomes of several mammalian species, including humans, non-human primates, rodents and elephants.

    A New Wrinkle on Parasitic Elements 2010

  • In the new study, Japanese researchers found copies of the bornavirus N (for nucleoprotein) gene inserted in at least four separate locations in the human genome.

    Wired Top Stories Tina Hesman Seay 2010

  • To progress to nucleoprotein cells from the ribocyte era, the RNA cell must devise translation.

    An Interesting Pattern 2008

  • To progress to nucleoprotein cells from the ribocyte era, the RNA cell must devise translation.

    An Interesting Pattern 2008

  • And also, Pauling did not think that DNA “had a protein structure” – he thought that genes were encoded in the protein portion of nucleoprotein.

    Fuller's Invention? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Repetitive DNA sequence elements are also fundamental to the cooperative molecular interactions forming nucleoprotein complexes.

    Richard Sternberg, vindicated, publishes paper on "junk DNA" Denyse O 2005

  • Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction.

    Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later 1986

  • His researches on the virus which causes the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.

    Wendell M. Stanley - Biography 1964

  • He studied the proteins of viruses and antibodies, and succeeded in isolating a nucleoprotein which had bacteriophage activity: his suggestion that the activity was due to nucleic acid was later proved to be correct.

    John H. Northrop - Biography 1964

  • A chemical investigation of the protoplasm of the leucocytes shows the presence of nucleoprotein and of a globulin.

    V. Angiology. 2. The Blood 1918

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