Reading signals on the nucleosome with a new nomenclature for modified histones

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 110-112

  Turner, Bryan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTONE; LYSINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; HISTONES; LYSINE; NUCLEOSOMES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 15044358494     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb0205-110     Document Type: Review

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