Unusual histone modifications in Trypanosoma brucei

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2306-2310

  Janzen, Christian J ^a   Fernandez, Joseph P ^a   Deng, Haiteng ^a   Diaz, Robert ^a   Hake, Sandra B ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edman; Histone acetylation; Histone methylation; Histone modification; Mass spectrometry; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; HISTONE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33645987019     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.044     Document Type: Article

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