Parallel origins of the nucleosome core and eukaryotic transcription from archaea

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 234-239

  Ouzounis, Christos A ^a,c   Kyrpides, Nikos C ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; CCAAT binding factor subunit; Core Histone fold; Evolution of transcription; General transcription factors; Histones; Profile searches; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029881897     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02198849     Document Type: Article

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