Archaeal histones and the origin of the histone fold

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 520-525

  Sandman, Kathleen ^a   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33748706963     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2006.08.003     Document Type: Review

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