histone

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Meaning

1. noun Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin.

Similar words

acetylated linker nucleosomal nucleohistone histone deacetylase dinucleosome phosphohistone macrohistone cytohesin chromatosome

Often followed by

deacetylase proteins hi acetylation genes and octamer gene

Word family

histones