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In vitro transcription assays demonstrated that the K. pastoris nucleosome is transcribed by the K. pastoris RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) more efficiently than the human nucleosome, while the RNAPII pausing positions of the K. pastoris nucleosome are the same as those of the human nucleosome. 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