The N tails of histones H3 and H4 adopt a highly structured conformation in the nucleosome

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 503-508

  Banères, Jean Louis ^a,b   Martin, Aimée ^a   Parello, Joseph ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Clostripain; Histone N termini; Nucleosome; helix

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031592931     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1297     Document Type: Editorial

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