Revisiting the structure and functions of the linker histone C-terminal tail domain

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-176

  Lu, Xu ^a   Hansen, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge neutralization; Chromatin folding; Linker histones; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

HISTONES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ARGININE; DNA; HISTONE; LYSINE;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; HISTONES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0042388117     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/o03-041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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