A novel chromodomain protein, Pdd3p, associates with internal eliminated sequences during macronuclear development in Tetrahymena thermophila

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 4128-4134

  Nikiforov, Mikhail A ^a,c   Gorovsky, Martin A ^a   Allis, C David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CROSS LINKING; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOME; GERM LINE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0034067083     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.11.4128-4134.2000     Document Type: Article

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