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Identification in Cleaving Embryos of Three RNA Species serving as Templates for the Synthesis of Nuclear Proteins

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Three species of RNA which sediment at 9–10S and are synthesized in the nuclei of cleaving sea urchin embryo cells are tentatively identified as the messenger RNAs for the three chief classes of histones.

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KEDES, L., GROSS, P. Identification in Cleaving Embryos of Three RNA Species serving as Templates for the Synthesis of Nuclear Proteins. Nature 223, 1335–1339 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231335a0

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