Folding mechanism of the (H3-H4)2 histone tetramer of the core nucleosome

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1304-1316

  Banks, Douglas D ^a   Gloss, Lisa M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical denaturation; Circular dichroism; Fluorescence; Kinetics

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA; HISTONE; OLIGOMER; TETRAMER; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANIDINE; HISTONES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1942537192     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03535504     Document Type: Article

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