Strategies for the reconstitution of chromatin

Nature Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-26

  Lusser, Alexandra ^a   Kadonaga, James T ^a  

^a SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 18744373022     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth709     Document Type: Review

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