The distribution of binding sites for centromere protein B (CENP-B) is partly conserved among diverged higher order repeating units of human chromosome 6-specific alphoid DNA

Chromosome Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 395-405

  Sugimoto, Kenji ^a   Furukawa, Kenji ^a   Kusumi, Kayo ^b   Himeno, Michio ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b MEC Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alphoid satellite; CENP B; Centromere; DNA binding; Fluorescence in situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; MONOMER; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 6; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT;

AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030842231     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018448425994     Document Type: Article

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