The five cleavage-stage (CS) histones of the sea urchin are encoded by a maternally expressed family of replacement histone genes: Functional equivalence of the CS H1 and frog H1M (B4) proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1189-1200

  Mandl, Birgit ^a   Brandt, Wolfgang F ^b   Superti Furga, Giulio ^a,c   Graninger, Paula G ^a   Birnstiel, Max L ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H1; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANURA; ECHINOIDEA; PSAMMECHINUS MILIARIS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031017529     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.3.1189     Document Type: Article

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