Chromatin transitions during early Xenopus embryogenesis: Changes in histone H4 acetylation and in linker histone type

Developmental Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 214-227

  Dimitrov, Stefan ^a   Almouzni, Geneviève ^a   Dasso, Mary ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHROMATIN; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GASTRULA; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0027429520     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1993.1299     Document Type: Article

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