Role of histone H1 as an architectural determinant of chromatin structure and as a specific represser of transcription on Xenopus oocyte 5S rRNA genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3668-3680

  Sera, Takashi ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRESSOR GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031835433     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.7.3668     Document Type: Article

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