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Intranuclear Proteins of the Oocytes in Artemia salina L.

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RECENT biochemical and cytological investigations, dealing with the problem of intranuclear proteins, suggest that the nucleus has an important role in protein metabolism. In addition to the nucleo-proteins, of both the ribonucleic and deoxyribonucleic types, histones and more complex non-histone proteins have also been described in the nucleus. Chromosomin1 and the so-called ‘residual protein’2 belong to this last group. But, as earlier suggested by A. L. Dounce3, it was emphasized by cytological studies of A. W. Pollister and C. Leuchtenberger4 that the interphase nucleus contains a considerably larger amount of other proteins of non-histone type. Evidence has accumulated that it is mainly these non-histone proteins which differ from cell to cell; this fraction can be important in the general metabolism of the cell.

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FAUTREZ-FIRLEFYN, N., FAUTREZ, J. Intranuclear Proteins of the Oocytes in Artemia salina L.. Nature 172, 163–164 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172163a0

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