The effect of salts on the stability of the H2A-H2B histone dimer

Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 50, 2002, Pages 14951-14959

  Gloss, Lisa M ^a   Placek, Brandon J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACETYLATION; DIMERIZATION; DIMERS; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUORESCENCE; FREE ENERGY; IONIC STRENGTH; UREA;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CHLORIDE; DIMER; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; INORGANIC SALT; POTASSIUM SALT; SOLVENT; TETRAMER; TYROSINE; UREA;

ACETYLATION; ALKALINITY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SURFACE CHARGE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ANIMALS; BUFFERS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HISTONES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037126715     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi026282s     Document Type: Article

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