Diversity of prokaryotic chromosomal proteins and the origin of the nucleosome

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1350-1364

  Sandman, K ^a   Pereira, S L ^a   Reeve, J N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Chromatin; DNA packaging; Histone; Macromolecular crowding; Nucleoid; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE;

CHROMOSOME; EURYARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032426951     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050259     Document Type: Review

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