Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense it into chromatin. Nuclear DNA does not appear in free linear strands; it is highly condensed and ...

Histones are a family of small, positively charged proteins termed H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 (Van Holde, 1988). DNA is negatively charged, due to the phosphate groups in its phosphate-sugar ...

Warnecke wasn’t the first to look for histone in prokaryotes, but such searches, which tend to use eukaryotic histones as references, have only yielded a few potential candidates. That may be because ...