A development-specific histone H3 localizes to the developing macronucleus of euplotes

Genesis

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-188

  Ghosh, Susmita ^a,b   Klobutcher, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Ciliated protozoa; DNA rearrangement; Histone variant; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; EUPLOTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; INVERTEBRATA; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034072454     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1526-968X(200003)26:3<179::AID-GENE3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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