Structural and functional properties of linker histones and high mobility group proteins in polytene chromosomes

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 177-187

  Wiśniewski, Jacek R ^a   Grossbach, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA binding; Histone H1; HMG1; HMGI

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CURVED DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PUFF; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHROMOSOMES; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029985743     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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