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histone /hisÂ·tone/ (hisÂ´tÅn) a simple protein, soluble in water and insoluble in dilute ammonia, found combined as salts with acidic substances, e.g., the protein combined with nucleic acid or the globin of hemoglobin. histone (hÄ­sâ²tÅnâ²)
Histones were discovered in 1884 by Albrecht Kossel. The word histone dates from the late 19th century and is from the German Histon, of uncertain origin: perhaps from Greek histanai or from histos. Until the early 1990s, histones were dismissed as merely packing material for nuclear DNA.