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Chromatin is composed of regularly-spaced nucleosomes. This beads-on-a-string structure is visible in the electron microscope at very low salt concentrations. At physiological salt concentration, chromatin folds to form a condensed fibre about 30 nm wide, facilitated by the linker histone (H1).
