A novel chromatin protein, distantly related to histone H2A, is largely excluded from the inactive X chromosome

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 375-384

  Chadwick, Brian P ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Euchromatin; Histone H4 acetylation; Histones; MacroH2A; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE; NUCLEOSOME; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SUCROSE GRADIENT; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035931749     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.152.2.375     Document Type: Article

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