Human sperm telomere-binding complex involves histone H2B and secures telomere membrane attachment

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1591-1597

  Gineitis, Arunas A ^a,b   Zalenskaya, Irina A ^a   Yau, Peter M ^a   Bradbury, E Morton ^a,c   Zalensky, Andrei O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LITHUANIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Histone H2B; Nuclear membrane; Sperm; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H2B;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPERM; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL EXTRACTS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 1; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034739842     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.7.1591     Document Type: Article

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