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Histones of Sperm

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Handbook of Genetics

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In “A Catalog of Sperm Histones” (Bloch, 1969), organisms were grouped into five categories according to the basic proteins of their sperm: a Salmo type containing easily extractable “monoprotamines” (Kossel, 1928) whose sole basic amino acid is arginine, a mammalian type containing a very basic “protaminelike” protein that nevertheless binds strongly to the sperm head and can be extracted only after breaking disulfide linkages (Henricks and Mayer, 1965), a Mytilus type easily extractable and intermediate in composition between the monoprotamines and somatic histones (also designated di- and triprotamines by Kossel, 1928), a Rana type showing no discernible differences from somatic histones, and a crab type perhaps containing histones in the cytoplasm but none in the nucleus.

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