The histone H1 genes of the dipteran insect, Chironomus thummi, fall under two divergent classes and encode proteins with distinct intranuclear distribution and potentially different functions

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 184-196

  Trieschmann, Lothar ^a   Schulze, Ekkehard ^a   Schulze, Bettina ^a   Grossbach, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chironomus; Chromatin structure; DNA protein interaction; Histone H1; Linker histone

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLY; GENE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI PIGER; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI THUMMI; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030733641     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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