Remodeling somatic nuclei in Xenopus laevis egg extracts: Molecular mechanisms for the selective release of histones H1 and H1° from chromatin and the acquisition of transcriptional competence

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 5897-5906

  Dimitrov, Stefan ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^b  

^a INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

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

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone; Transcriptional competence

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H1;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029856861     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00976.x     Document Type: Article

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