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Linker histones are not essential and affect chromatin condensation in vivo.
Cell - 14 Jul 1995
Shen X, Yu L, Weir J W, Gorovsky M A
Abstract excerpt
We have (separately) disrupted all of the expressed macronuclear copies of the HHO gene encoding macronuclear histone H1 and of the micronuclear linker histone (MLH) gene encoding the protein MicLH in Tetrahymena thermophila. These disruptions are shown to eliminate completely the expression of each protein. Strains without either linker histone grow at normal rates and reach near-normal cell densities,...
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