A core nucleosome surface crucial for transcriptional silencing

Nature Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 273-279

  Park, Jeong Hyun ^a   Cosgrove, Michael S ^a   Youngman, Elaine ^a   Wolberger, Cynthia ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MODEL; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 0036789523     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng982     Document Type: Article

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