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How many total polypeptide chains would be present in a single nucleosome core particle?

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The nucleosome core particle is composed of a histone octamer that is wrapped by 147 nucleotide pairs of DNA,
and it is connected to its neighbors via a linker DNA of variable length
. Non-histone proteins are also abundant in the chromatin.
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