Structural and functional features of a specific nucleosome containing a recognition element for the thyroid hormone receptor

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 7130-7145

  Wong, Jiemin ^a   Li, Qiao ^a   Levi, Ben Zion ^a,b   Shi, Yun Bo ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

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

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Linker histones; Nuclear receptors; Nucleosome positioning; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H1; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030663342     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.23.7130     Document Type: Article

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