H1 linker histones are essential for mouse development and affect nucleosome spacing in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 4559-4572

  Fan, Yuhong ^a   Nikitina, Tatiana ^b   Morin Kensicki, Elizabeth M ^c   Zhao, Jie ^a   Magnuson, Terry R ^c   Woodcock, Christopher L ^b   Skoultchi, Arthur I ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTONES; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038721220     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.13.4559-4572.2003     Document Type: Article

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