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  • noun An oligomer having eight subunits

Etymologies

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octa- + -mer

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Examples

  • This and the stoichiometry of the tetramer implied a unit of structure in chromatin based on two each of the four histones, or an (H2A) 2 (H2B) 2 (H3) 2 (H4) 2 octamer.

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

  • Cambridge, I proved the existence of the histone octamer and the equivalence of the 200 bp unit with the particle seen in the electron microscope

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

  • Rather, the DNA in chromatin must be wrapped on the outside of the histone octamer.

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

  • Most recently, we found that RSC can transfer a histone octamer to a histone chaperone protein, exposing the nucleosomal DNA for transactions such as transcription

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

  • The first is the utiltarian named octamer-binding protein 4, a protein that plays a key role in controlling the expression of other genes, such as the second gene the researchers found switched on in their epithelial cells - the more imaginatively named nanog.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The first is the utiltarian named octamer-binding protein 4, a protein that plays a key role in controlling the expression of other genes, such as the second gene the researchers found switched on in their epithelial cells - the more imaginatively named nanog.

    Medpundit 2005

  • Only after the assembly of the complete octamer and the masking of the di-arginine motif is the K

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

  • Oct-4 and that this binding transactivates more strongly than the canonical octamer motif

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Simone Pacini et al. 2010

  • NOP5 / NOP58assembly protein 1-like 4 NONO NP_075633. 1 non-POU-domain-contain ing, octamer binding107 nu cleosome NP_061356. 1 nucleolar protein 5 10 18283 3 1 12 5 231 1.32E-044 ± -151 2 1.12E-04

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Chuvpilo S, Schomberg C, Gerwig R, Heinfling A, Reeves R, et al. (1993) Multiple closely-linked NFAT/octamer and HMG I (Y) binding sites are part of the interleukin4 promoter.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Takayuki Manabe et al. 2009

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