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nucleosomes

nucleosomes is the plural of nucleosome.

Meaning of nucleosome

Noun

nucleosome (plural nucleosomes)

  1. 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).1975, P. Oudet, M. Gross-Bellard, P.Champon, “Electron Microscopic and Biochemical Evidence that Chromosome Structure Is a Repeating Unit”, in Cell, →PMID, page 9

Questions about nucleosomes

What is nucleosomes the plural of?
Nucleosomes is the plural of nucleosome.

Words near nucleosomes in the dictionary

  1. nucleosol
  2. nucleosolic
  3. nucleosols
  4. nucleosomal
  5. nucleosome
  6. nucleosomes
  7. nucleosomic
  8. nucleostemin
  9. nucleosyl
  10. nucleosyls
  11. nucleosyntheses

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