Chromatin higher order structure: Opening up chromatin for transcription

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 334-343

  Németh, Attila ^b   Längst, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chromatin; Remodelling; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; HISTONE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DIMERIZATION; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 18744421874     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/2.4.334     Document Type: Article

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