English Explanatory Dictionary

nucleosome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.

Word forms

nucleosome nucleosomes

Etymology

From nucleo- + -some, and to evoke the older name nu body. Coined by P. Oudet et al. in 1975 (see quotation below).

Derived words

antinucleosome dinucleosome hemisome hypernucleosome internucleosome intranucleosome mononucleosome NCP nucleosomal nucleosomic oligonucleosome polynucleosome prenucleosome ribonucleosome tetranucleosome trinucleosome
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