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Histones: sequestered by Jabba in fatty storehouse.
Current biology : CB - 20 Nov 2012
Marzluff William F, Tatomer Deirdre C
Abstract excerpt
A paper in this issue shows that histones H2a and H2b are stored in lipid droplets in Drosophila embryos complexed with the protein Jabba. In Jabba mutant embryos, histones H2a and H2b are degraded but embryos survive by translating stored histone mRNA.
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