Transcription of chromatin: These are complex times

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-172

  Armstrong, Jennifer A ^a   Emerson, Beverly M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DEACETYLATION; DNA PACKAGING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032055036     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(98)80137-8     Document Type: Article

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