In vitro assembly of the CENP-B/α-satellite DNA/core histone complex: CENP-B causes nucleosome positioning

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 533-548

  Yoda, Kinya ^a,e   Ando, Satoshi ^a   Okuda, Asuko ^b   Kikuchi, Akihiko ^c   Okazaki, Tuneko ^d,e  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 0031720004     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00210.x     Document Type: Article

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