Definition of "nucleosomes" []

• Plural form of nucleosome. (noun)

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• "Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an ordered manner to form chromosomes."
• "The hormone-bound RAR began to unwind the chromatin and move aside large protein complexes, called nucleosomes, to make room for other DNA unwinding proteins and transcription factors."
• "Most of the DNA is tightly wrapped around protein particles called nucleosomes, which are connected to each other by flexible DNA segments, like pearls on a necklace."