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Science 25 September 1964:
Vol. 145. no. 3639, pp. 1435 - 1437
DOI: 10.1126/science.145.3639.1435
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Intranuclear Site of Histone Synthesis

M. L. Birnstiel 1 and W. G. Flamm 2

1 Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2 Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

The nucleolus is implicated as a site of synthesis of nuclear basic proteins. Some of these newly synthesized sized proteins derived from the nucleolus have been characterized chemically as histones.


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