Evidence for a shared structural role for HMG1 and linker histones B4 and H1 in organizing chromatin

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 548-561

  Nightingale, Karl ^b   Dimitrov, Stefan ^b   Reeves, Raymond ^a,b   Wolffe, Alan P ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

B4 HMG1 nucleosome Xenopus; Chromatin histone

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030064348     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00387.x     Document Type: Article

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