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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2010 Aug 13;403(5):777–802. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.057

Table 1.

Nucleosome repeat length (NRL) within and between organisms.

Species/tissue NRL
Aspergillus nidulans [111] 154
Rat neuron [112] 162
Saccharomyces cerevisiae [113] 165
Neurospora crassa [114] 170
H1c, H1d, H1e null ES [115] 174
Amoebae [116] 176
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells [2] 178
Plasmodia [116] 181
HeLa cells [2] 188
Hepatoma cells [2] 188
Teratoma cells [2] 188
P815 cells (mouse mastocytes) [2] 188
Myoblast cells [2] 189
CV1 cells (African green monkey) [2] 189
Wild-type mouse ES cells [115] 189
H10, H1c, H1e null mouse thymus [115] 189
BHK (Syrian hamster kidney) [2] 190
Rat kidney primary culture [2] 191
H10, H1c, H1e null mouse liver [115] 191
Rat bone marrow [2] 192
Rat fetal liver (14 days) [2] 193
Wild-type mouse liver [115] 195
Wild-type mouse thymus [115] 196
Rat liver [2] 196
Rat kidney [2] 196
Syrian hamster liver [2] 196
Syrian hamster kidney [2] 196
Chick oviduct [2] 196
Rat glia [112] 201
Chicken erythrocyte [117] 212
Echinoderm sperm [3] ∼ 220