Chromatin as a eukaryotic template of genetic information

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 269-278

  Cavalli, Giacomo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MATING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; YEAST; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMATIN; CLONING; DNA TEMPLATE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CLONING, ORGANISM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0036591876     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00324-1     Document Type: Review

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