Anatomy of a hypersensitive site

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1677, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 24-29

  Reinke, Hans ^a   Hörz, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ChIP assay; Gene regulation; Hypersensitive site; Nuclease digestion; Nucleosome remodeling; PHO5 promoter

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; NUCLEASE;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ASSAY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DIGESTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONITORING; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

EID: 1542328277     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.09.014     Document Type: Review

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