Histone variants: Deviants?

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-310

  Kamakaka, Rohinton T ^b   Biggins, Sue ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histones; Segregation; Structure; Transcription; Variants

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE H5;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOSOME; BIOPHYSICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME; YEAST;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MICE; NUCLEOSOMES;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 13244255650     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1272805     Document Type: Review

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