Histone octamer function in vivo: Mutations in the dimer-tetramer interfaces disrupt both gene activation and repression

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2493-2506

  Santisteban, Maria Soledad ^a   Arents, Gina ^b   Moudrianakis, Evangelos N ^b   Smith, M Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division cycle; Chromatin; Nucleosome structure; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; TETRAMER; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MUTANT; CHROMATIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST CELL;

CHROMATIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEOSOMES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030999604     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.9.2493     Document Type: Article

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