Binding of the winged-helix transcription factor HNF3 to a linker histone site on the nucleosome

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 244-254

  Cirillo, Lisa A ^a   McPherson, Clifton E ^a   Bossard, Pascale ^a   Stevens, Kimberly ^a   Cherian, Sindhu ^a   Shim, Eun Yong ^a   Clark, Kirk L ^b   Burley, Stephen K ^b   Zaret, Kenneth S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; HNF3; Linker histone; Nucleosome; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; DNA; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HISTONES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032472365     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.244     Document Type: Article

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