The histone code at DNA breaks: A guide to repair?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 757-765

  Van Attikum, Haico ^a,b   Gasser, Susan M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b European Molecular Biology Organization   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELL ACTIVITY; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HISTONES; HUMANS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 28444456705     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1737     Document Type: Review

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