Histone H4 underacetylation in plant facultative heterochromatin

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1235-1241

  Buzek, Jiri ^a   Riha, Karel ^a   Siroky, Jiri ^a   Ebert, Irma ^b   Greilhuber, Johann ^b   Vyskot, Boris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Facultative heterochromatin; Gagea lutea pentaploid endosperm; Histone H4 acetylation; Immunogold labelling; Plants; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; LYSINE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GAGEA LUTEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031761512     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.10.1235     Document Type: Article

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