Abstract
A baby hamster kidney cell line (BHK21), maintained in the presence of crude histone preparations for 3 days, has been shown to undergo morphological and behavioural transformations similar in nature to those obtained with viruses and mycoplasmas.
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Latner, A., Longstaff, E. Transformation of Mammalian Cells by Crude Histones. Br J Cancer 25, 280–283 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1971.35
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