Centromeres and variant histones: What, where, when and why?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 279-285

  Smith, M Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CELL PROTEIN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; DNA; EPITOPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; INSECT CELL; KNOCKOUT GENE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA REPLICATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0036591877     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00331-9     Document Type: Review

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