📚 noun • entry_id 44584
nucleosome
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nucleosoma
Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.
We have termed these particles “nucleosomes,” to evoke their nuclear origin and their resemblance to the “nu” (ν) bodies described by Olins and Olins (1974).
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