What do linker histones do in chromatin?

BioEssays

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-255

  Wolffe, Alan P ^a   Khochbin, Saadi ^b   Dimitrov, Stefan ^c  

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

^b INSERM   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0031104747     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950190311     Document Type: Review

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