Histones and nucleosomes in Archaea and Eukarya: A comparative analysis

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Pereira, Suzette L ^a   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome structure; Histone evolution; Hyperthermophile; Methanothermus fervidus; Nucleosome positioning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; DIMERIZATION; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOTHERMUS FERVIDUS;

EID: 0032144071     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050053     Document Type: Review

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