Nuclear reassembly in vitro is independent of nucleosome/chromatin assembly

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 512-519

  Jiang, Zhengfan ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Zhai, Zhonghe ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Demembraned sperm; Egg extract s 150; Nuclear reassembly; Nucleosome; Pbk322; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346843530     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02882889     Document Type: Article

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