Histone variant H2ABbd confers lower stability to the nucleosome

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 715-720

  Gautier, Thierry ^a   Abbott, D Wade ^b   Molla, Annie ^a   Verdel, Andre ^a   Ausio, Juan ^b   Dimitrov, Stefan ^a  

^a INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical centrifugation; FRAP; Histone variant H2ABbd; Nucleosomes; Stability

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2ABBD; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; CHICKENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEOSOMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 4444378379     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400182     Document Type: Article

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