Transcriptional activators direct histone acetyltransferase complexes to nucleosomes

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 498-502

  Utley, Rhea T ^a   Ikeda, Keiko ^a,b   Grant, Patrick A ^a   Côté, Jacques ^c   Steger, David J ^a   Eberharter, Anton ^a   John, Sam ^a   Workman, Jerry L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; HELA CELL; HERPES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

ACETYLATION; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032581751     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28886     Document Type: Article

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