Differential immunostaining of plant chromosomes by antibodies recognizing acetylated histone H4 variants

Chromosome Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-194

  Houben, Andreas ^a   Belyaev, Nikolai D ^b   Turner, Bryan M ^b   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylated histone H4; Heterochromatin; Indirect immunofluorescence; Nucleolus organizing region; Vicia faba

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BEAN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VICIA FABA;

ACETYLATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOMES; FABACEAE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; KARYOTYPING; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029949761     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02254958     Document Type: Article

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