histone 的定义
Biochemistry.
- any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
更多histone例句
- A lot of these early hypotheses looked at histones in terms of their ability to allow the cell to expand its genome.
- They showed how the four principal eukaryotic histones were related to each other and to the archaeal histones.
- At the same time, though, new studies of histones in an unusual group of viruses are complicating the answers about where our histones really came from.
- Last December, he published a paper showing that there are diverse variants of histone proteins with different functions.
- Billions of years ago, the cells called archaea were already using histones much like our own to manage their DNA — but they did so with looser rules and much more variety.
- The histone was so toxic that its anaphylactic properties could not be studied.