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Journal of Bacteriology, August 2005, p. 5482-5485, Vol. 187, No. 15
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.15.5482-5485.2005
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Histones in Crenarchaea

L'ubomíra uboová,^1, Kathleen Sandman,¹ Steven J. Hallam,² Edward F. DeLong,² and John N. Reeve^1*

Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210,¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139²

Received 10 April 2005/ Accepted 14 May 2005

Archaeal histone-encoding genes have been identified in marine Crenarchaea. The protein encoded by a representative of these genes, synthesized in vitro and expressed in Escherichia coli, binds DNA and forms complexes with properties typical of an archaeal histone. The discovery of histones in Crenarchaea supports the argument that histones evolved before the divergence of Archaea and Eukarya.

Permanent address: Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Ivanka Pri Dunaji, Slovak Republic.

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