Centromere formation: From epigenetics to self-assembly

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 70-78

  Carroll, Christopher W ^a   Straight, Aaron F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN A; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

BACTERIAL CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FUNGAL CELL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEREDITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; X CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; PATIENT EDUCATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33646007027     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2005.12.008     Document Type: Review

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