Nucleosome structure completely inhibits in vitro cleavage by the V(D)J recombinase

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3712-3723

  Golding, Amit ^a   Chandler, Simon ^b   Ballestar, Esteban ^b   Wolffe, Alan P ^b   Schlissel, Mark S ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Chromatin; Nucleosome; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HISTONE; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HELA CELLS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPSIN; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033168204     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.13.3712     Document Type: Article

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