Structure and functional relationships of archaeal and eukaryal histones and nucleosomes

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 165-169

  Sandman, Kathleen ^a   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Chromatin; Chromosome structure; Genome compaction; Histone; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034011209     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002039900122     Document Type: Short Survey

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