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The occurrence of a mutant dimerizable histone H5 in Japanese quail erythrocytes.
Genome - 1 Oct 1995
Neelin J M, Neelin E M, Lindsay D W, Palyga J, Nichols C R, Cheng K M
Abstract excerpt
An allelic variant of linker histone H5 has been found in the erythrocytes of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) descended from a small group of feral birds captured on the island of Hawaii. This variant spontaneously forms protein dimers in vitro in the absence of reducing agents. That this depends upon the introduction of a sulfhydryl group (presumably because of a cysteine substitution) is indicated by its...
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