histone

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Histon, perhaps from Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “make stand”) or ἱστός (histós, “loom”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪstəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪstoʊn/

Noun

histone (plural histones)

1. (biochemistry) Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin.

Derived terms

• antihistone
• histone deacetylase
• macrohistone
• nonhistone
• nucleohistone
• oncohistone
• phosphohistone

Translations

water-soluble protein

Catalan: histona f Chinese: Mandarin: 組蛋白 / 组蛋白 (zǔdànbái) Esperanto: histono French: histone (fr) German: Histon Italian: istone (it) m Japanese: ヒストン (ja) (hisuton) Portuguese: histona Russian: гисто́н (ru) m (gistón) Spanish: histona Swedish: histon (sv)

Anagrams

• this one, honiest, Hinotes, noiseth, thiones

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

histone f (plural histones)

1. (biochemistry) histone

Further reading

• “histone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.