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Definition of Histones

1. histone [n] - See also: histone

Medical Definition of Histones

1. Proteins associated with DNA in chromosomes. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Histones

Literary usage of Histones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1917)
"histones. histones are found in the unripe sperm of the salmon [Miescher, ... histones are supposed to be intermediate compounds between protamines and ..."

2. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"histones are precipitated from their watery solutions by ammonia. This reaction is the most important, for it led originally to the discovery of the ..."

3. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"histones. The group of proteins termed histones-was established by Kossel, who isolated a histone from the red blood corpuscles of the goose. ..."

4. Chemistry of the Proteids by Gustav Mann (1906)
"In excess of ammonia the histones are soluble, and they are even more ... The amount of ammonia required to precipitate histones and to redissolve the ..."

5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1906)
"Mr. Turner read a paper, " Further Notes on the genus Coleophora" and showed life-histones of C. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"More important, however, than whether all or only part of the chromosomal label reflects acetylated histones, is the fact that after all fixation procedures ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: By John A. Mandel by Olof Hammarsten (1908)
"The different histones behave differently in these three reactions, and hence they ... On the other hand, all histones seem to be precipitated from neutral ..."

8. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1911)
"Sulphur has been found in those histones in which it has been tested for, ... The different histones behave differently in these three reactions, ..."

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