Chromatin complexes as aperiodic microcrystalline arrays that regulate genome organisation and expression

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-99

  Singh, Prim B ^a   Huskisson, Neville S ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal address; Complementarity; Cooperativity; Heterochromatin; Microcrystalline; Polycomb group genes

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; METAPHASE; PERIODICITY;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; METAZOA;

EID: 0031953265     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)22:1<85::AID-DVG9>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Review

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