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Keywords: Nucleosome, Chromatin, Eukaryotic, Dna, Proteins

Related Terms: Plasmid, Promoter, Gene, Gene Product, Histone, Intron, Gene Expression, Primosome, Dna Methylation, Cpg Island, Pseudogene, Nucleosome, Homeobox, Methylation, Transcription Factor, Replisome, Exon, Expression Vector, Transcription Factors, Restriction Enzymes, Fusion Protein, Topoisomerase, Structural Gene, Intein, Exons, Rdna, Photoreactivation, Cistron, Consensus Sequence, Alternative Splicing, Insertion, Operator, Restriction Endonuclease, Transposase, Telomerase, Restriction Enzyme, Klenow Fragment, Mtdna, Replicon, Pcr, Regulatory Gene, Repressor, Restriction Site, Origin Of Replication, Coding Sequence, Introns, Huntingtin, Coding Region, Conserved Sequence, Gyrase

Proteins that are physically associated with DNA and are largely responsible for the structural organization of chromosomes.

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(Greek, histos = web) One of a set of small, positively charged proteins that bind to DNA in eukaryotic cells. (More? DNA Notes)

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A family of small, highly conserved basic proteins, found in the chromatin of all eukaryotic cells, that associate with DNA in the nucleosome.

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nuclear proteins that coil DNA molecules.

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