Tetrameric structure of centromeric nucleosomes in interphase Drosophila cells

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1798-1809

  Dalal, Yamini ^a,b   Wang, Hongda ^c   Lindsay, Stuart ^c   Henikoff, Steven ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; NUCLEASE; TETRAMER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERPHASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HISTONES; INTERPHASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

EID: 34548267126     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050218     Document Type: Article

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