Identification of Xenopus CENP-A and an associated centromeric DNA repeat

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1800-1810

  Edwards, Nathaniel S ^a   Murray, Andrew W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN A; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL CULTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FROG; GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAINING; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 16344384870     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-09-0788     Document Type: Article

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