The Drosophila Polycomb protein interacts with nucleosomal core particles in vitro via its repression domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 8451-8460

  Breiling, Achim ^a,c   Bonte, Edgar ^b,d   Ferrari, Simona ^b   Becker, Peter B ^b,d   Paro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033506496     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.12.8451     Document Type: Article

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