Histone variants: Are they functionally heterogeneous?

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Brown, D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034928521     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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