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In molecular biology bacterial DNA binding proteins are a family of small usually basic proteins of about 90 residues that bind DNA and are known as histone-like proteins. Examples include the HU protein in Escherichia coli is a dimer of closely related alpha and beta chains and in other bacteria can be a dimer of identical chains. HU-type proteins have been found in a variety of eubacteria cyanobacteria and archaebacteria and are also encoded in the chloroplast genome of some algae.
