Histone variants, nucleosome assembly and epigenetic inheritance

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 320-326

  Henikoff, Steven ^a   Furuyama, Takehito ^a   Ahmad, Kami ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; SATELLITE DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 8; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; X CHROMOSOME; YEAST;

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

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 2942746179     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.05.004     Document Type: Review

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