Spectroscopic Study of the Interaction of DNA with the Linker Histone H1 from Starfish Sperm Reveals Mechanisms of the Formation of Supercondensed Sperm Chromatin

Figure 1

CD spectra of the complexes of DNA with the linker histone H1T from rat thymus (a) and H1Z from starfish sperm (b) in 15 mM NaCl at different protein to DNA ratios ( 𝑟 ).
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