Differential nucleosome positioning on Xenopus oocyte and somatic 5 S RNA genes determines both TFIIIA and H1 binding: A mechanism for selective H1 repression

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 683-697

  Panetta, Gianna ^a   Buttinelli, Memmo ^a   Flaus, Andrew ^b   Richmond, Timothy J ^b   Rhodes, Daniela ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

H1 binding; H1 selective repression; Hydroxyl radical dyad mapping; Nucleosome positioning; TFIIIA binding

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; RNA 5S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032566724     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2087     Document Type: Article

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