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THE importance of arginine as a component of the chromatin in nuclei has been known for a long time. This amino-acid has even been considered as a possible ‘bond’ between the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the protein because it is so characteristic of all nucleoproteins. If it is so, there should be a relationship between individual amounts of the acid and of arginine in nuclei—provided that nuclei contain no arginine additional to that linked to deoxyribonucleic acid. We have therefore studied the individual amounts of arginine in some nuclei and sperms, compared with the nucleic acid content in the same material.
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VENDRELY, R., VENDRELY, C. Arginine and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Content of Erythrocyte Nuclei and Sperms of some Species of Fishes. Nature 172, 30–31 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172030b0
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