Assembly of variant histones into chromatin

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2005, Pages 133-153

  Henikoff, Steven ^a   Ahmad, Kami ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromeric chromatin; Chromatin remodeling; Epigenetics; Histone replacement; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2A BBD; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3.3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE MACROH2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27144544622     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.133518     Document Type: Review

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