Protective nucleosome centering at splice sites as suggested by sequence-directed mapping of the nucleosomes

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 145-149

  Denisov, D A ^a   Shpigelman, E S ^a   Trifonov, E N ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA folding; Gene splicing; Introns; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MAPPING; INTRON; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

DNA; EXONS; INTRONS; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031593247     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00406-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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