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Qualitative and Quantitative Assays for Detection and Characterization of Protein Antimicrobials
Published on: April 10, 2016
[Antihistone activity of bacteria]
Abstract:
For the first time an anti-histone activity of bacteria has been revealed and a method of its determination has been suggested. Bacteria used in the study and isolated from anterior section of nasal mucosa of the children have been identified on a species level and characterized in terms of their antihistone activity. With employment of light microscopic technique different stages of interaction between bacteria and nuclei of epitheliocytes of anterior section of nasal mucous membrane of children under school age were studied. A biological significance of antihistone activity of bacteria as well as a possibility of its use in biotechnology, Medicine, Ecology is discussed.
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