Centromere Identity Maintained by Nucleosomes Assembled with Histone H3 Containing the CENP-A Targeting Domain

Molecular Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 309-322

  Black, Ben E ^a,b   Jansen, Lars E T ^a,b   Maddox, Paul S ^a,b   Foltz, Daniel R ^a,b   Desai, Arshad B ^a,b   Shah, Jagesh V ^a,b   Cleveland, Don W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLCYCLE; DNA

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN VARIANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

AUTOANTIGENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33846199534     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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