The human H2A and H2B histone gene complement

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-18

  Albig, Werner ^a   Trappe, Ralf ^a   Kardalinou, Efterpi ^a   Eick, Stefan ^a   Doenecke, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histone gene expression; Histone H2A; Histone H2B; Human histone gene organization; Promoter elements

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 6P; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; HISTONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032906782     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.002     Document Type: Article

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