Variability of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomal high-mobility-group-1-like proteins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 646-652

  Stemmer, Christian ^a   Ritt, Christoph ^a   Igloi, Gabor L ^a   Grimm, Rudi ^b   Grasser, Klaus D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Hewlett Packard GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thialana; Chromatin; DNA binding; High mobility group (HMG) domain; High mobility group (HMG) protein

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031574212     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00646.x     Document Type: Article

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