An asymmetric model for the nucleosome: A binding site for linker histones inside the DNA gyres

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5287, 1996, Pages 614-617

  Pruss, Dmitry ^a   Bartholomew, Blaine ^b   Persinger, Jim ^b   Hayes, Jeffrey ^c   Arents, Gina ^d   Moudrianakis, Evangelos N ^d   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HISTONE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029805762     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5287.614     Document Type: Article

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