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Rat liver chromatin prepared from purified nuclei catalyzed the acetylation of histones in nucleosomes at the same level as that of nuclei. The activity of histone acetyltransferase in chromatin was destroyed by heat treatment at 65 degrees C for 5 min. Histones in exogenously added nucleosomes also served as substrate for the enzyme. The sites of acetylation in the nucleosomes appeared to be in the trypsin-digestable N-terminal regions of histones H4, H3, and H2A, as has been reported in an in vivo system.
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Horiuchi et al. (1978) studied this question.
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