Chicken chromobox proteins: cDNA cloning of CHCB1, -2, -3 and their relation to W-heterochromatin

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 303-314

  Yamaguchi, Kazunori ^a   Hidema, Shizu ^a   Mizuno, Shigeki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031815810     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.4082     Document Type: Article

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