Surface histidine residue of archaeal histone affects DNA compaction and thermostability

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-22

  Higashibata, Hiroki ^a   Siddiqui, Masood A ^b   Takagi, Masahiro ^c   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^d   Fujiwara, Shinsuke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compaction; Histone; Hyperthermophile; KOD1; Mutation; Tetramer; Thermococcus kodakaraensis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; HISTONE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN HPKB; PROTEIN KOD1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARAENSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARAENSIS;

EID: 0038647127     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00358-6     Document Type: Article

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