Are scs and scs' 'neutral' chromatin domain boundaries of the 87A7 locus in vivo?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 138-139

  Avramova, Zoya ^a   Tikhonov, Alexander ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA STRUCTURE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0033119566     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01712-6     Document Type: Letter

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