Trypanosomatid histones

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 365-372

  Alsford, Sam ^a   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 3242878498     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04151.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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