Characterization of chicken CENP-A and comparative sequence analysis of vertebrate centromere-specific histone H3-like proteins

Gene

Volumn 316, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 39-46

  Régnier, Vinciane ^a,b   Novelli, Jacopo ^a   Fukagawa, Tatsuo ^c   Vagnarelli, Paola ^d   Brown, William ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromere protein A; Degenerate RT PCR; Evolutionary studies; Genomic organisation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H3; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FISH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141957264     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00768-6     Document Type: Article

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