H2A.Bbd: A quickly evolving hypervariable mammalian histone that destabilizes nucleosomes in an acetylation-independent way

FASEB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 316-326

  Eirín López, José María ^a,b   Ishibashi, Toyotaka ^a   Ausió, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Evolution; Sedimentation velocity

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; NUCLEOPROTEIN; HISTONE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NUCLEOSOMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 38049153427     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-9255com     Document Type: Article

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