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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
a simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: simple protein
History
Borrowed from German Histon, perhaps from Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “make stand”) or ἱστός (histós, “loom”).
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
