Chromodomains are protein-RNA interaction modules

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6802, 2000, Pages 405-409

  Akhtar, Asifa ^a   Zink, Daniele ^a   Becker, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034699391     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35030169     Document Type: Article

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