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#Question id: 2854


Negatively charged phosphate groups in the DNA backbone must be neutralized in order for folding of DNA to occur. In bacterial DNA, this charge neutralization is carried out by small positively charged molecules called polyamines. What proteins carry out this same function in eukaryotic cells?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. Transcription factors     

  2. High mobility group proteins (HMG-1)

  3. Histones              

  4. Scaffold proteins