Chromatin-remodeling factors: Machines that regulate?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 346-353

  Varga Weisz, Patrick D ^a   Becker, Peter B ^b  

^a MARIE CURIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031860225     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(98)80010-0     Document Type: Article

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