Chromatin modification: How to put a HAT on the histones

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032903740     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80037-2     Document Type: Article

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